How to clone single branch from the GitHub?

Generally GitHub repository has multiple branch on it. But sometime we don't want to clone whole branch.

This command "git clone git://github/repository.git" will take all branches of its. But we want to only clone "Sub_Branch_2" branch.

For Example:

Main_Branch
        '
        ' - > Sub_Branch_1
       
        '
        ' - > Sub_Branch_2
       
        '
        ' - > Sub_Branch_3
 

This blog will help you for cloning single branch from GitHub.

First we need to check system git version using below command.

git --version

If git version is less than 1.8.x than we must to upgrade git version using below command.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pdoes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git --version

Afterwards use below command for clone single branch

git clone -b branch_name --single-branch git://github/repository.git

For example:

git clone -b Sub_Branch_2 --single-branch git://github/repository.git

For more details, you may visit Git tutorial

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