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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2009, 09:12 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530903120212m360c1db8y763b69bc8610ae64@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30903120148u52164fe3offe665bf70ef6d8d@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.

+1

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Felipe Contreras