Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
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> (In general, even if I clone _everything_, I'd also like to perhaps set
> the default 'master' branch to track something else than what I'm cloning
> from. In fact, I think I'd generally prefer cloning everything, but
> sometimes I'd like to say "I'm going to track the upstreams branch xyzzy
> rather than their default branch").
>
> I realize that the
>
> git clone <repo> [<dir>]
>
> means that we can't have the same syntax as "git pull" (which doesn't take
> the <dir> part), but that doesn't make the "#branch" syntax any better.
>
> So I much prefer the
>
> git clone [--default branch] [--branch x]* <repo> [<dir>
>
> kind of syntax.
Two questions:
- I understand --branch is too large for 1.5.0, but maybe this --default isn't?
- Or, maybe we can have a flag to avoid creating the master branch at all?
User can combine this with -n, then check which branches exist with "git branch -r"
and create the branch himself.
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