From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:34:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
Message-ID: <20070205193429.GA8409@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702051014040.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ugh.  That means the bash completion cannot (easily) do something
fancy, like tab completion of branch names within <repo>.  Yea,
its not fast on slow links, but it beats typing out an ugly branch
name.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.