Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch

> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > The options --branch and -b allow the user to override the initial
>> > branch created and checked out by git-clone (normally this is the
>> > active branch of the remote repository).
>> >
>> > If the selected branch is not found the operation aborts.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com>
>>
>> The semantics and desirability of the new feature have been already
>> discussed, and I am not convinced that it is necessary, in the sense that
>> I do not think I likely ever use this myself, but I am just one of git
>> users so that is not a strong basis for rejection.
>
> 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.