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.

score 163 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 19 '16 at 23:28

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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

edited Nov 19 '16 at 23:28

Sean Bright

answered Feb 17 '14 at 16:07

joseph.hainline

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You can use --no--single--branch instead -b bar, to download first commit form ALL branches. – Radek Wilczak May 14 '18 at 10:54
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I think you mean `--no-single-branch` and not `--no--single--branch`. – Pedro Oliveira Jul 11 '19 at 09:50
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The more verbose version of `-b` is `--branch` – isapir Jan 15 '21 at 16:06

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