Clone a BRANCH (other than master) from GitHub

[kumueric]

In VSC, if we open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P), we can easily clone the master branch of a remote repo. What if we have a particular feature branch? How can we specify it?

As a workaround, we can either use a terminal window (or the VSC integrated terminal) to cd over to the directory, and manually type: git clone -b <named_branch> https://github.com/org/repo.git. Then, we can Open Folder to it, and everything is fine. But, it would be nice to be able to clone a BRANCH directly from within VSC.

[joaomoreno]

#106664