Pull specific branch from git
Also, to add to @tomrbrujin 's answer, you can specify the name of the local destination directory in the clone command like this:
git clone https://github.com/example/example1.git -b branch_name --single-branch local_name
The final arg passed, local_name would create and name the local copy of the cloned remote directory "local_name."
Otherwise, the local directory name will only reflect the repo name, which here would be: example