Clone specific branch from git

Question

I have a repo in bitbucket, and i am using git.

So my branches are

master
develop_one
develop_two

When i use git clone [email protected]:project/project.git, i am getting only the master branch code, but i need to clone/pull only develop_one branch, so how to clone/pull only develop_one branch code ?

Note: The other branches(develop_one, develop_two) are not merged in to master, and dont want to merge until the functionality has been completed actually, so want to get/clone/pull only a specific branch code

Solution 1

Try:

git clone [email protected]:project/project.git -b develop_one --single-branch

For already cloned repos use:

git fetch
git checkout develop_one
# Or more specific:
git checkout --track -b develop_one

This will track the develop_one branch from the remote.

Solution 2

Also, to add to @tomrbrujin 's answer, you can specify the name of the local destination directory in the clone command like this:

git clone https://github.com/example/example1.git -b branch_name --single-branch local_name

The final arg passed, local_name would create and name the local copy of the cloned remote directory "local_name."

Otherwise, the local directory name will only reflect the repo name, which here would be: example

Comments

[Anshul Goyal]

I get error: unknown option single-branch when I do the the command you mention. What version of git are you running?

[tombruijn]

git --version returns git version 1.8.4.2 (just one patch release behind I see)

[Anshul Goyal]

Oh Ok. --single-branch came in 1.7.10 and I am on 1.7.9.5. What an edge case :)