How do I clone a single branch in Git?

Question

I have a local Git repository called \'skeleton\' that I use for storing project skeletons. It has a few branches, for different kinds of projects:

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Answer 1

If you want a shallow clone, you can do this with:

git clone -b mybranch --depth=1 https://example.com/myproject.git localname

--depth=1 implies --single-branch.