When you clone a repo only one branch is pulled from the remote, main by default so I don't understand your question. Cloning and forking are two different things. Clone is basically pulling a git project to your local computer where forking will create a copy of a repo (with all the branches) to another repo).
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When you clone a repo only one branch is pulled from the remote, main by default
No. I havent read book recommended by @[email protected], but github cheatsheet $ git clone [url] says all branches https://training.github.com/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet
It downloads the branches meaning that it will download the list of the branches that exist, but only one branch is "checked out" at a time, which is where the files are actually downloaded to your pc.
It’s important not to conflate git and github. Cloning is a git operation. Forking is a github operation.
I would recommend reading the excellent pro git book to understand how git works from the ground up: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
I’m not aware of a similar guide to learning github but I think it will be much easier to pick up once you have a better understanding of what git provides on its own.
Unless you need to interact with other people, you can always just clone the repo, work locally, and create your own github repo (without forking) to act as a remote and backup.