From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:07:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git clone --checkout <branch>
Message-ID: <20100216110724.GA25173@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d1002160248h7410d4edu6e3ed1fd27c40059@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:48:42PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:

> what do you guys think about allowing users to specify the branch to
> checkout when cloning, instead of the default HEAD of the to-be-cloned
> repository?

I think it's a great idea, but that we should call it "--branch" and
that I should travel back in time to implement it last September as
7a4ee28.

-Peff