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

From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <011d01c80b8e$b0c0dc30$04ac10ac@Jocke>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710102254340.4174@racer.site>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Schindelin [mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de] 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> > I should know better than to throw out ideas like this. 
> Next time I have 
> > an suggestion I will think long and hard about it before 
> posting again.
> 
> Hey, it was just a try.

Some people might get scared away from such tries

> 
> Personally, I am not interested in the feature _you_ asked for, but I

NP, if it only me that is interested then this is probably not such a good idea.

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> thought it might be pretty easy for you to rewrite 
> git-clone.sh to take 
> advantage of git-fetch and git-remote, and that your desired 
> feature would 
> be easier to add then.  So easy that the whole thing would 
> have taken you 
> all of an hour or so.

Well, now I had to take a look and I think you are overestimating my capabilities :) It is a 12KB script full of git-plumbing I have never used, nor do I do sh scripts well. It might be an hour for you, but I would probably have to spend the whole day :)

 Jocke

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> 
> But maybe somebody else is interested enough to scratch your itch.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 
> 
>