How to clone a specific branch in Python, Colab?

Question

I usually use this to clone a github repo in colab

!git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git

But say I want to clone a specific branch of the repo. I tried

!git clone https://github.com/user/repo/tree/branch.git

But I get an error

fatal: repository 'https://github.com/user/repo/tree/branch.git/' not found

Answer 1

Use this:

!git clone -b branch_name https://github.com/user/repo.git

In place of branch_name, put the name of the branch that you want to clone.

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