From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:43:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow cloning branches selectively
Message-ID: <20111225174322.GB6361@beez.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <m3hb0ofwem.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 08:28:39AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> 
> > Sometimes it's useful to clone only a subset of branches from a remote
> > we're cloning. Teach clone the --fetch option to select which branches
> > should get fetched.
> > 
> > Each --fetch sets up a fetch refspec for that branch. Previously this
> > was only possible by initializing a repo and manually setting up the
> > config.
> 
> I haven't read the code, but I guess it should be possible to share
> code with "git remote add", which allows to select which branches to
> track, and which branch is to be 'main' on remote.
> 
>   git remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] ...

Ah, very nice. I didn't know about those options. Hopefully I can use
it. Thanks for pointing it out.

   cmn