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I sometimes need to have two different branches of a GitHub repo on my local disk at the same time. (especially when dealing with gh-pages)
I usually do this by making multiple clones of the repo in different folder, with clone using a different branch.
Is it possible to do this in the GitHub for Windows UI? (as opposed to switching a single local clone from one branch to another)
It looks like the only way to switch between local clones is to drag the new clone into the UI every time.
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The idea is to use the git-clone to clone the repository. This will automatically fetch all the branches and tags in the cloned repository. To check out the specific branch, you can use the git-checkout command to create a local tracking branch.
git clone downloads all remote branches but still considers them "remote", even though the files are located in your new repository. There's one exception to this, which is that the cloning process creates a local branch called "master" from the remote branch called "master".
I don't think it is possible to do what you want to do with the current version (1.0.9.2) but here is what I do to work on two branches.
Clone the two branches from the Git Shell
git clone https://your-project/master/ master
git clone https://your-project/gh-pages/ gh-pages
In Git for Windows, drag & drop the folder you want to work on.
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