Clone a specific branch

Clone a specific branch in Git — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick.

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Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I hand this to Sam for review, make the clone easy to use: surface the branch name at the…
Before I hand this to Sam for review, make the clone easy to use: surface the branch name at the top, verify the remote origin URL, show the last three commits on feature/refactor-logging, and call out any untracked files or merge conflicts that would slow testing.

Become — change the pattern

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I keep cloning repos and then immediately checking out a branch I meant to be on; that costs me…

I keep cloning and then switching branches which wastes time

I keep cloning repos and then immediately checking out a branch I meant to be on; that costs me several extra minutes per task and leads to mistakes when I hand work to QA. I want a habit that avoids the extra step and a simple checklist to ensure every clone lands on the intended branch with correct remotes. What change in my clone workflow and a two-step verification would stop these errors?

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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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