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how to clone every branch of a repo into a single folder

Agreeable Armadillo answered on October 17, 2022 Popularity 5/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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You can check out a branch to a separate directory using git worktree (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree).

You can automate the processing of all branches by scripting with git for-each-ref (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-for-each-ref).

The scripting can be slightly complicated because by default you have one worktree and it's got one branch checked out. (I considered using a bare repo to avoid this, but git makes different assumptions about how a bare repo will be used and so some things don't get set up the way you'd want them by default.) To avoid problems, you should put the default worktree in detached HEAD state.
```sh
mkdir my-tfs-style-repo
cd my-tfs-style-repo
got clone url/to/remote/repo
cd repo
git checkout --detach
git for-each-ref refs/remotes/origin --format='../%(refname:lstrip=3) %(refname:lstrip=3)'|grep -v ' HEAD$' |xargs -n 2 git worktree add
```

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git clone -b <branch name> --single-branch https://github.com/<user name>/<repo>.git

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