The latest articles on DEV Community by Chukwuamaka Osuji (@senseiamaka). https://dev.to/senseiamaka https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F400082%2F37155ab8-c884-43c4-9553-f0e6a2084dc0.jpeg https://dev.to/senseiamaka en Chukwuamaka Osuji Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:41:51 +0000 https://dev.to/senseiamaka/cloning-a-particular-branch-of-a-git-repository-58k5 https://dev.to/senseiamaka/cloning-a-particular-branch-of-a-git-repository-58k5 <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--Eadp9p3f--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/w2ffhshbznj1puakc5ey.jpeg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--Eadp9p3f--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/w2ffhshbznj1puakc5ey.jpeg" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <p>Using git from the command line is something I have always wished I was good at. When I see how wonderfully well-experienced people use git from the command line, I marvel and am pushed to continue striving to attain an appreciable level of expertise in this art. Thus, whenever I use git, I try as much as possible to do so from the command line, although the lack of consistency has been a problem.</p> <p>Recently, I released a second version of the miniature electronic voting application which I developed. Before I committed the codebase for the second version to the GitHub repository, I was not so sure how to go about it because there was a huge difference between the technologies used for the first and the second versions, and as such I could not add the second version as a release, because it required a separate README file. Eventually, I decided to move the first version to a new branch and commit the second and most recent version to the master branch so that I could write separate READMEs for them.</p> <p>While drafting the README, I figured that less experienced command line users might find it difficult to clone a specific version (branch) of the app (repository) with the conventional <strong><em>git clone URL</em></strong> command. After a little research, I discovered a way to do this, which is a little tweak from the conventional command; <code>git clone -b branchname URL</code> gets the work done. So, if the name of the branch I want to clone is <strong>v1.0</strong> and the URL to clone the repository is <strong><a href="https://github.com/Chukwuamaka/ballotpal.git">https://github.com/Chukwuamaka/ballotpal.git</a></strong>, I would do <code>_git clone -b v1.0 https://github.com/Chukwuamaka/ballotpal.git</code>.</p> <p>If you just found out, <strong>welcome to the club!</strong></p> git github