git branch - git clone specific list of branches

Question

I want to clone a list of branches from remote repo. What is the best way to do that without fetching everything? I saw solutions for cloning one specific branch but I need multiple branches. Thank you.

Edit: I ended up using following command to create a bundle and then using it for my purposes:

git bundle create ../BUNDLE.bundle branch1 branch2 refs/notes

And then using this bundle for my purposes.

Answer 1

You start with one branch:

git clone --branch first URL localrepo

and then fetch all the rest:

cd localrepo
for branch in second third etc; do
    git fetch origin $branch:$branch
done

Or without loop

git fetch origin second:second third:third