From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:18:38 GMT Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected branches? Message-ID: <470DEA6E.5020107@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <011c01c80b85$a0d8d560$04ac10ac@Jocke> Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org] >> Sent: den 10 oktober 2007 21:38 >> To: Joakim Tjernlund >> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected >> branches? >> >> >> >> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >>> I know I can use git remote to do this, but it is a bit clumsy >>> when starting a new repo. >> How about just >> >> git init >> .. set up remote tracking info in .git/config .. >> git fetch remote >> >> which should do what you want. >> >> Linus > > From git remote man page: > o Imitate git clone but track only selected branches > > $ mkdir project.git > $ cd project.git > $ git init > $ git remote add -f -t master -m master origin git://example.com/git.git/ > $ git merge origin > > yes, this does the trick too but that is more to type so I thought > it would be simpler if I could just tell git clone which branches I want. > Now, this isn't a killer feature to me so if you don't like it, I good > with that too. > Well, that's how git-clone should probably look, now that git-remote exists. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231