Cloning a Specific Branch
To clone a specific branch of a git repository without cloning all other branches, use the following command formula:
git clone --single-branch --branch <branch_name> <repo_URL.git>
For example, if you want to clone the release-1.28 branch of the
Kubernetes GitHub repository, run:
git clone --single-branch --branch release-1.28 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.git
Cloning the Latest Commit of a Specific Branch
If you only want to clone the latest commit of a specific branch (which results in a faster and smaller cloning operation) use --depth 1. The command formula looks like this:
git clone --single-branch --branch <branch_name> --depth 1 <repo_URL.git>
And here is another example using the release-1.28 branch of the
Kubernetes GitHub repository:
git clone --single-branch --branch release-1.28 --depth 1 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.git