Unique git url for github repo with multiple branches?

Question

I'm looking at a flask app which I would like to import into an openshift project (https://github.com/lpolepeddi/intro-to-flask) . This contains a a series of 'checkpoints'(branches) as part of a tut. I want to grab the final code which is at https://github.com/lpolepeddi/intro-to-flask/tree/20_visibility_control for the starting point of a project . Is the a way to get a unique git url for this branch of the form

https://github.com/lpolepeddi/intro-to-flask.git

So that I can pull it in with a command like:

 git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/shekhargulati/flask-login-openshift-quickstart.git

Git doesn't have a concept of "checkpoints". Perhaps you mean branches? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Jan 18 '16 at 20:43
Sorry they refer to it as checkpoints in the article and the repo https://github.com/lpolepeddi/intro-to-flask/tree/20_visibility_control but you are right they are branches — user1592380, Jan 18 '16 at 20:49
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3471827/how-do-i-list-all-remote-branches-in-git-1-7 — john mangual, Jan 18 '16 at 22:22
I understand the desire to clone only a particular branch, but your `git remote…` command confuses me. What are you trying to accomplish with it? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Jan 18 '16 at 22:26

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 27 '17 at 23:53

Although as far as I know "single branch GitHub url" doesn't exist, you could just clone entire repo and later change branch:

git clone https://github.com/lpolepeddi/intro-to-flask.git
cd intro-to-flask
git checkout 20_visibility_control

or as stated in this answer, clone only one branch:

git clone --branch 20_visibility_control --single-branch https://github.com/lpolepeddi/intro-to-flask.git

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