Clone a local git feature branch

Question

We have a feature branch in VSTS - feature/someproject. I need to work on the same feature/someproject branch. Here's what I am trying in my laptop to clone the feature stream:

/c/work> mkdir test
/c/work> cd test
/c/work/test>git checkout -b feature/test feature/someproject

But I get the below error:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

How can I clone the feature stream locally in my laptop for some work?

Answer 1

you need to first clone the repo.

git clone repoAddress

Once you have the repository cloned you can checkout the feature branch.

Answer 2

• If you only want to clone the feature/someproject branch to a local repo , you can follow below commands:

   git clone <VSTS git repo URL> --single-branch feature/someproject --branch feature/someproject cd feature/someproject 

  Now the local git will only contain feature/someproject branch.

• If your work not only contribute for feature/someproject branch, but for for other branches, then you'd better clone the whole git repo and switch to different branches by git checkout . Such as:

   git clone <VSTS git repo URL> cd reponame git checkout feature/someproject 

• And if you already cloned the VSTS git repo , you should execute git commands under the local git repo's directory (where a hidden .git folder located).