What else can you do?

How to clone repository to a specific commit? (full clone)

# Create empty repository to store your content
git clone <url>
git reset <sha-1> --hard
More info:

How to clone single branch?

git clone <url> --branch <branch_name> --single-branch <folder_name>

How to clone only latest commit from a given branch?

git clone <url> --depth=1 --branch <branch_name> --single-branch <folder_name>

How to shallow clone a specific commit with depth 1?

As @sschuberth commented out: --depth implies --single-branch.

Instead of clone use the fetch command:

# fetch a commit (or branch or tag) of interest
# In this case you will have the full history of this commit
git fetch origin <sha1>