From: Michael S. Tsirkin Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:01:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone. Message-ID: <20070201230100.GL17617@mellanox.co.il> In-Reply-To: <20070201220657.GB19271@fieldses.org> > Quoting J. Bruce Fields : > 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. Shawn already answered that, I concur. -- MST