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> Quoting J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
>
> 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.