From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:59:38 GMT
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Message-ID: <20071031015938.GB24403@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90710301849h1c31736an1ec163aa1e274577@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:49PM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> > Actually, IIRC it won't fetch any of the non 'blue' refs.
> You recall correctly, and that was a cogito misfeature. I don't think
> git should follow that part of the spec ;-)

I'm not so sure. Junio keeps unrelated branches in git.git like 'html'
and 'todo'. Is it unreasonable to say "clone git.git, but only the todo
branch" and expect it _not_ to download the entire git history?

-Peff