Cloning specific branch

You can use the following flags --single-branch && --depth to download the specific branch and to limit the amount of history which will be downloaded.

You will clone the repo from a certain point in time and only for the given branch

git clone -b <branch> --single-branch <url> --depth <number of commits>

--[no-]single-branch

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Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch remote’s HEAD points at.

Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any branch when --single-branch clone was made, no remote-tracking branch is created.

--depth

Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of commits

you can use this command for particular branch clone :

git clone <url of repo> -b <branch name to be cloned>Eg: git clone https://www.github.com/Repo/FirstRepo -b master

To clone a particular branch in a git repository

- Command: git clone "repository_url" -b "branch_name"
- Example: git clone https://gitlab.com/amm.kazi/yusufoverseas.git -b routes