From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30903120148u52164fe3offe665bf70ef6d8d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <buoocw7s79y.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
>> $ git clone -n URL
>> $ git checkout -b foo origin/bar
>>
>> That being said, I see the following command as an improvement over
>> the actual GIT UI:
>>
>>  $ git clone git://URI -b bar
>
> Note that in your original advice, foo and bar can be different, and
> it's not clear to me what "-b bar" should do...
>
> Personally I frequently use foo == bar (no local master branch), but I
> think another common pattern is foo != bar, but foo or bar == "master".
>
> Maybe a syntax similar to push, like "-b LOCAL_BR:REMOTE_BR",
> with "-b BR" being shorthand for "-b BR:BR"?

Yes, makes sense.

Ciao,
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Paolo
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