how to clone a specific branch on github code example

Example 1: git clone specific branch only

git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git

Example 2: git clone single branch

# clone only the remote primary HEAD (default: origin/master)
git clone <url> --single-branch

# as in:
git clone <url> --branch <branch> --single-branch [<folder>]