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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def clone_repo(self, repo_name, remote_repo, ref):
 """Clones the given repo and returns the Repository object."""

        self.shallow_clone = False
        dirname, repo = self.set_up_clone(repo_name, remote_repo)
        if os.path.isdir("%s/.git" % dirname):
            log.debug("Updating %s to %s", repo.download_location, dirname)
            self.executor(
                "cd %s && git checkout master" % dirname)
            self.pull(dirname)
        else:
            log.debug("Cloning %s to %s", repo.download_location, dirname)
            self.executor(
                "git clone %s %s" % (repo.download_location, dirname))

        if remote_repo is not None:
            log.debug("Pulling remote branch from %s", remote_repo.url)
            self.add_remote(dirname,
                            remote_repo.name,
                            remote_repo.url)
            self.pull(dirname)
        return repo