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

git clone --branch {branch-name} {repo-URI}

Example:

git clone --branch dev https://github.com/ann/cleaningmachine.git

• dev: This is the {branch-name}
• https://github.com/ann/cleaningmachine.git: This is the {repo-URI}