How to clone the latest stable branch to a dir via github?

Clone from git and change to the WordPress directory

git clone git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git cd WordPress

Then list out the branches..

git branch -r

This gives something like...

origin/1.5-branch   origin/2.0-branch   ...origin/3.4-branch  origin/HEAD -> origin/master   origin/master

Check out the branch you want...

git checkout 3.4-branchBranch 3.4-branch set up to track remote branch 3.4-branch from origin.Switched to a new branch '3.4-branch'

wordpress git github installation

Here's what I actually ended up doing, which is included in a Fabric fabfile I have on Github:

git clone git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git .git checkout $(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))

It clones the repo like normal, then does some shell magic to find the latest tagged version of WordPress (Which is where the stable branches live.)

wordpress git github installation

Can you try a git checkout master ?

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