From: Sean Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:24:22 GMT Subject: Re: git bug? + question Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20061103203610.GB7585@spearce.org> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:36:10 -0500 Shawn Pearce wrote: > > Maybe even going as far as automatically creating a local branch > > for each remote branch on clone is worth considering. > > Nack. > > I work with a workflow where our central repository has 2 important > branches (vmtip and vmvt), and a bunch of transient developer > topic branches (e.g. sp/foo). We only have a master branch in this > repository so that git-clone will clone it without choking during > the clone. Users tend to do immediately after a clone: > > git branch -D master > git branch -D origin > git branch -D ... other topic branches not interested in ... > edit .git/remotes/origin ... delete topic branches ... I think your Nack was a little rash here. The feature would be quite useful to work flows other than yours. It sounds like what _you_ want is a feature to select branches when cloning rather than the current default of cloning all. That would stop your developers having to delete branches and editing .git/remotes/origin immediately after cloning.