Clone only one branch

Question

I would like to know how I could clone only one branch instead of cloning the whole Git repository.

Answer 1

From the announcement Git 1.7.10 (April 2012):

git clone learned --single-branch option to limit cloning to one branch (surprise!); tags that don't point into the history of the branch aren't fetched.

Git really permits you to clone only 1 branch, for example:

git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git