From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:06:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
Message-ID: <20070201220657.GB19271@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070201220122.GF17617@mellanox.co.il>

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I'm often annoyed by the fact that when I clone from this repository,
> I get a copy of all topic branches and origin tracking master
> by default, when I actually might only want to work on a different
> topic. And getting all extra branches is annoying on a slow connection.

Can you quantify "annoying"?

Not a challenge, I'm just curious--I would've thought that, for most
projects, even with long-lived topic branches, it wouldn't be that
expensive to get a second branch once you'd gotten one.

--b.