Fork from a branch in github

Question

Is there a way to fork from a specific branch on GitHub? … For example, moodle has many branches (1.9, 2.0 … and so on). Can a clone be performed of just branch 1.9 and not the

Answer 1

A fast, alternative approach is to create your own new repo.

Go to https://github.com/new and make a new repo. Do not initialize with README.

Scroll down to get your git remote

Then:

git remote rm origin
git config master.remote origin
git config master.merge refs/heads/master
// Run code from above image
git push --set-upstream origin yourbranchname

You will have a new repo with the original repo's code and a branch that can be made into a pull request.