From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:56:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
Message-ID: <7vwqzsoufi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CUuPPvTMNmtX9P5ZHkvUHCVZkKmPj7Ghubxt_daPaKZg@mail.gmail.com>

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

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> That could be misleading. The original purpose is to clone just one
> ref, be it a branch or a tag. You might want to work on top of a
> specific version and may not want to clone everything.

Yeah, see my other comments.