From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:32:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Quick way to clone exactly one branch
Message-ID: <20090528203200.GA14576@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3ljohas9x.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:05PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > No, AFAIK there isn't a simpler way to do it. But it is something people
> > have asked about before, so I think it would be a nice addition.
> > 
> > You can't even use "git remote" because it doesn't allow you to tweak
> > the refspecs you add. [...]
> 
> It doesn't? Strange, I thought that is what '-t <branch>' option
> for "git remote add" for ;-))))

Oh, indeed. For some reason I thought that was about setting up tracking
for branches. So yes, Avery would be much better off in his example with

    git remote add -t master origin git://whatever

But it would still be even nicer to have "clone -t master".

-Peff