The command:
cookiecutter https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/
will clone the lastest version of cookiecutter-django, which is aimed for Django 1.9.
There is a Stable section in the README pointing to some tags. One of them being https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/releases/tag/1.8.7.
But if I try:
cookiecutter https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/releases/tag/1.8.7
I get an error:
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[u'git', u'clone', u'https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/releases/tag/1.8.7']' returned non-zero exit status 128
So, how to specify cookiecutter to use those stable released instead of the master branch?