Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Feb 1, 2007, 23:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20070201234246.GD5362@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070201220657.GB19271@fieldses.org>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:06:57PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

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> 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.

Regardless of the extra branches, it is also annoying to have the master branch in the clone branched off the HEAD of the parent repo. Especially when you intend to fork an stgit stack off the non-HEAD branch - it will be a pleasure to make "stg clone" to take advantage of this new feature :)

This is also a feature which is available in cogito since ages (cg-clone URL#branch), and not having it in plain git is an annoyance.

Best regards,

-- 
Yann.