Clone a Git repository into a new directory, checking out an specific branch

git force-clone

  • Provides the basic functionality of `git clone`, but if the destination git repository already exists it will force-reset it to resemble a clone of the remote.
    Part of `git-extras`.
    More information: <https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md#git-force-clone>.
  • Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

git force-clone -b {{branch_name}} {{remote_repository_location}} {{path/to/directory}}

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