Cloning specific branch

Question

I am new to git version control and I dont know how to clone / pull a specific branch of a repo . Trying to get the branch master of the project, but it defaults to branch test_1

I have tried using the command git clone but it grabbed default test_1. I have also tried reading other questions but the commands are confusing me and I dont want to break anything.

How do i clone the master branch of this project so i can make changes and push to it?

Answer 1

You can use the following flags --single-branch && --depth to download the specific branch and to limit the amount of history which will be downloaded.

You will clone the repo from a certain point in time and only for the given branch

git clone -b <branch> --single-branch <url> --depth <number of commits> 

--[no-]single-branch

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Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch remote’s HEAD points at.

Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any branch when --single-branch clone was made, no remote-tracking branch is created.

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--depth

Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of commits

Answer 2

you can use this command for particular branch clone :

git clone <url of repo> -b <branch name to be cloned>  Eg: git clone https://www.github.com/Repo/FirstRepo -b master