From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:05:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD
Message-ID: <46a038f90908280405o1e86bf4fo60eb07957ce9158a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A97B1F3.5060408@gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø<torarnv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad to see this topic being revised. Here's the original discussion for
> reference:

ISTR that early git supported this -- maybe just on the HTTP
implementation? I sure remember writing

   git clone http://host/foo.git#branchname

and getting a cloned repo where 'branchname' was tracking
'origin/branchname', and was checked out as HEAD.

It would have been dropped by the switch to C builtins :-/

cheers,



m
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