How do I shallow clone a repo on a specific branch?

Question

How do I shallow clone a git repository, so that my clone contains only 1 history item, and starts on a specific branch?

I know how to do a shallow clone:

git clone --depth 1 https://path/to/myrepo.git

but not start the clone on a specific branch.

joseph.hainline · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-19 23:28:52Z

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To clone repo foo.git with branch bar do:

git clone --depth 1 https://path/to/repo/foo.git -b bar

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answered Feb 17, 2014 at 16:07

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You can use --no--single--branch instead -b bar, to download first commit form ALL branches.

I think you mean --no-single-branch and not --no--single--branch.

The more verbose version of -b is --branch