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

From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 21:36 UTC
Message-ID: <011c01c80b85$a0d8d560$04ac10ac@Jocke>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710101236350.20690@woody.linux-foundation.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org] 
> Sent: den 10 oktober 2007 21:38
> To: Joakim Tjernlund
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected 
> branches?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > 
> > I know I can use git remote to do this, but it is a bit clumsy 
> > when starting a new repo.
> 
> How about just
> 
> 	git init
> 	.. set up remote tracking info in .git/config ..
> 	git fetch remote
> 
> which should do what you want.
> 
> 		Linus

>From git remote man page:

 o  Imitate git clone but track only selected branches

          $ mkdir project.git
          $ cd project.git
          $ git init
          $ git remote add -f -t master -m master origin git://example.com/git.git/
          $ git merge origin

yes, this does the trick too but that is more to type so I thought it would be simpler if I could just tell git clone which branches I want. Now, this isn't a killer feature to me so if you don't like it, I good with that too.

 Jocke