From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:13:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD Message-ID: <7vfxbgvdx8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20090825015726.GB7655@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:42:48AM +0400, 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. > > If you are doing this a lot, it is probably a sign that you should > repoint the "HEAD" of the parent repository. > > That being said, you may want one branch half the time, and another > branch the other half. So I think this is a good feature. > > A few comments: Very good review snipped, as I agree with everything you said (except that you did not point out the lack of sign-off).