[FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected branches?

From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <011401c80b6f$1a11d1f0$04ac10ac@Jocke>

To my knowlede a git clone always clones all branches from the remote repo.
I would like the possibly to clone selected branches, like
 git clone <repo URL> -b master -b upstream
which will only fetch the master and upstream branch.

I know I can use git remote to do this, but it is a bit clumsy when starting a new repo.

What do you think?

 Jocke