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Re: git bug? + question

From
JWJosef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 6, 2006, 11:00 UTC
Message-ID
<200611061200.08972.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To
<454F0636.1060406@shadowen.org>
On Monday 06 November 2006 10:53, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
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> Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 November 2006 06:03, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> >> After reading your reply you are probably correct.  I can see there
> >> may be workflows that want every remote branch also created as a
> >> local branch.
> >>
> >> I could certainly live with a command line option to clone, e.g.:
> >>
> >> 	git clone --only vmdvt,vmtip user@host:/path...
> > 
> > Still missing here: What branch should be checked out after
> > cloning?
> 
> Does any need to be checked out?

We should not change existing behavior. IMHO, checking out a branch is mostly the right thing to do. Of course, you often want to specify which one. The current requirement for a master branch in the origin repository is really bad, as it obviously requires ugly workarounds in some cases (and totally confuse newbies in such use cases).

> Or perhap I should put it another way, 
> when we make a virgin repository we default to master checked out but
> its not joined to the DAG.

I do not understand this. By creating a local branch, the commit DAG is never changed.

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Message 35 of 38 in “git bug? + question”
  1. Miles BaderNov 2, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  3. SeanNov 3, 2006
  4. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  6. Andy ParkinsNov 3, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  8. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  9. Josef WeidendorferNov 3, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  11. Josef WeidendorferNov 3, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2006
  13. Josef WeidendorferNov 4, 2006
  14. Martin WaitzNov 3, 2006
  15. Santi BéjarNov 3, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  18. Andy ParkinsNov 3, 2006
  19. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  20. SeanNov 3, 2006
  21. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  22. Shawn PearceNov 3, 2006
  23. SeanNov 3, 2006
  24. Jeff KingNov 3, 2006
  25. Shawn PearceNov 4, 2006
  26. Shawn PearceNov 3, 2006
  27. SeanNov 3, 2006
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2006
  29. SeanNov 4, 2006
  30. Shawn PearceNov 4, 2006
  31. Josef WeidendorferNov 4, 2006
  32. Shawn PearceNov 4, 2006
  33. Josef WeidendorferNov 6, 2006
  34. Andy WhitcroftNov 6, 2006
  35. Josef WeidendorferNov 6, 2006
  36. Andy WhitcroftNov 6, 2006
  37. Shawn PearceNov 4, 2006
  38. Shawn PearceNov 4, 2006

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