From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:09:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
Message-ID: <7vd31kv2ba.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BGBwNp-oDsnB1QObrVLU54rtDmGGBF=Muww8ZJjfZScA@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> --mirror --single-branch combination does not look right. The "heads/"
>> part is missing..
>
> It also does not look right for cloning a tag:
>
> $ LANG=C ./git clone --single-branch --branch=v1.7.0 .git abc

What does it even _mean_ to clone a single branch and give a tag,
not a branch, to the --branch option?  Again, shouldn't it be
diagnosed as an error in the first place?