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:
casey@aga
you can use this command to git single branch and rename the folder if you want to keep branched stand alone
git clone -b [branch-name] --single-branch [url] [folder_name]
example
git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://github/repository.git project_mybranch