Question

Is it possible to use a public repository like github and have a branch exist on a private repository?

I want my master branch to be public, but I also want to work from a private branch (perhaps on another host) which I can work from. Occasionally, I would like to pull updates from the master branch as it’s updated.

Am I better off just using ‘git clone’?

Answer 1

Of course you can decide which branch to push to a remote repository. Assuming your github repository is called origin you would push only master with

$ git push origin master