From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:55:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
Message-ID: <20070205185541.GA16598@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702051014040.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

> (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.

-- 
MST