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Asked: 2026-06-14T06:16:58+00:00

I’m just curious, because I’ve noticed that some repositories have their branches setup like

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I’m just curious, because I’ve noticed that some repositories have their branches setup like this:

git branch -a

master
remotes/origin/branch1
remotes/origin/branch2/lala
remotes/origin/branch2/yay
remotes/origin/branch3
remotes/origin/branch4

I’m just curious how they do the branch lala and yay under branch2; or is that not a branch?

Any insight?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The branch2/lala and branch2/yay branches aren’t really “under” a branch named branch2. Each is just a normal branch, whose names happens to contain a /.

    :; cd /tmp
:; mkdir gittest
:; cd gittest
:; mkdir origin
:; cd origin
:; git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/gittest/origin/.git/
:; touch somefile
:; git add somefile
:; git commit -m 'initial commit'
[master (root-commit) 4d62ed7] initial commit
 0 files changed
 create mode 100644 somefile
:; git branch branch1
:; git branch branch2/lala
:; git branch branch2/yay
:; git branch branch3
:; git branch branch4
:; git branch -a
  branch1
  branch2/lala
  branch2/yay
  branch3
  branch4
* master

:; cd ..
:; git clone origin local
Cloning into 'local'...
done.
:; cd local
:; git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/branch1
  remotes/origin/branch2/lala
  remotes/origin/branch2/yay
  remotes/origin/branch3
  remotes/origin/branch4
  remotes/origin/master
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