From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:35:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: add a --no-tags option to clone without tags
Message-ID: <20170425223533.GL28740@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170418191553.15464-1-avarab@gmail.com>

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Add a --no-tags option to "git clone" to clone without tags. Currently
> there's no easy way to clone a repository and end up with just a
> "master" branch via --single-branch, or track all branches and no
> tags. Now --no-tags can be added to "git clone" with or without
> --single-branch to clone a repository without tags.

Could --single-branch be made to imply --no-tags, like --depth implies
--single-branch?  After all, all I wanted is that one branch, not some
tags.

Callers who really want the tags could still pass --tags to request
that.

Just thinking out loud,
Jonathan