From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:38:03 GMT Subject: Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD? Message-ID: <20051218003803.GT22159@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7vpsnzq66x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:29:10AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano said that... > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > Not really. I take this back. What you want to do I did not > > understand well enough. > > > > HEAD is kinda special. A hack I can think of is to do ls-remote > > first and do the guess clone-pack does for full clone case, and > > then give a specific branch name to clone. That might work. > > ... and another way would be to do this; I'll put this (with > fixes if there is some needed) in "master" tonight. Thanks! This makes it work very nicely and exactly the way I want, even giving git-fetch-pack-compatible output so I can seamlessly switch between the two commands. Very nice! -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.