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I would like to know how I could clone only one branch instead of cloning the whole Git repository.
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There are two ways to clone a specific branch. You can either: Clone the repository, fetch all branches, and checkout to a specific branch immediately. Clone the repository and fetch only a single branch.
From your web browser, open the team project for your Azure DevOps organization, and then choose Repos > Files to open the Files view. In the Files view, choose Clone to launch the Clone Repository popup. Copy the clone URL from the Clone Repository popup.
The idea is to use the git-clone to clone the repository. This will automatically fetch all the branches and tags in the cloned repository. To check out the specific branch, you can use the git-checkout command to create a local tracking branch.
From the announcement Git 1.7.10 (April 2012):
git clonelearned--single-branchoption to limit cloning to a single branch (surprise!); tags that do not point into the history of the branch are not fetched.
Git actually allows you to clone only one branch, for example:
git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git Note: Also you can add another single branch or "undo" this action.
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You could create a new repo with
git init and then use
git fetch url-to-repo branchname:refs/remotes/origin/branchname to fetch just that one branch into a local remote-tracking branch.
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