Clone from a branch other than master

Question

I am trying to pull from a repository in Github. But I don\'t want to clone the master branch. I want to clone some other branch. When I try git clone ,

Answer 1

Try this:

git init
git fetch url-to-repo branchname:refs/remotes/origin/branchname

EDIT

A better solution:

git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git