From: Joakim Tjernlund Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:36:33 GMT Subject: RE: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected branches? Message-ID: <011c01c80b85$a0d8d560$04ac10ac@Jocke> In-Reply-To: > -----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