From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:52:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30903110152m1b52de30ge630d6b9f6a4c7fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530903090901o6e8c2a40k676387f90ee461b3@mail.gmail.com> [restored the CC list] On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi > wrote: [...] >> I wrote a comment about the --branch approach a couple of days ago, dunno why >> but this thread never reached my inbox (replying via gmame web interface). >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112527 >> >> As I wrote in my post a friend of mine, new to git, was looking for the >> possibility of cloning a repo and automatically checkout a specific branch. > > Yeah, I also would like this option... one-liner for people that don't > know git at all. > > me: you want my code? just run this command. Yes, that is what my friend was lookin for. I told him to use the following procedure: $ git clone -n URL $ git checkout -b foo origin/bar He is now an almost happy git user :-). That being said, I see the following command as an improvement over the actual GIT UI: $ git clone git://URI -b bar Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ http://mypage.vodafone.it/