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

For cloning a specific branch you can do :

git clone --branch yourBranchName git@yourRepository.git

Answer 2

For the newbies like me, just run the code below

git clone https://gitlab.com/repo/repo.git --branch <name of branch> --single-branch

Answer 3

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