clone a branch from GIT

Question

I want to check out OpenStack Neutron's branch JUNO from the git repository. What is the right URI to do this? If I do

% git clone git://github.com/openstack/neutron/tree/stable/juno/

it says:

openstack/neutron/tree/stable/juno is not a valid repository name

However I do see this branch at https://github.com/openstack/neutron/tree/stable/juno/ . What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

You don't clone a branch, you clone an entire project:

$ git clone git://github.com/openstack/neutron
Cloning into 'neutron'...
remote: Counting objects: 105856, done.
remote: Total 105856 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (105856/105856), 44.17 MiB | 1.06 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (68444/68444), done.

After doing that, you can simply check out the branch you're interested in. Eg:

$ git checkout -b juno -t origin/stable/juno
Branch juno set up to track remote branch stable/juno from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'juno'