From: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:31:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD
Message-ID: <4A97B1F3.5060408@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1251228341-29434-1-git-send-email-catap@catap.ru>

On 8/25/09 9:25 PM, Kirill A. Korinskiy wrote:
> Sometimes (especially on production systems) we need to use only one
> remote branch for building software. It really annoying to clone
> origin and then swith branch by hand everytime. So this patch provide
> functionality to clone remote branch with one command without using
> checkout after clone.

Glad to see this topic being revised. Here's the original discussion for 
reference:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/114919/

Tor Arne