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git-checkout-branch.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
# Creates a Git repository, fetches and checks out a single branch from the remote repository
#
url=$1
branch=$2
git init
git remote add origin $url
git fetch origin $branch:origin/$branch
git checkout -b $branch --track origin/$branch
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