From: Sean Estabrooks Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:08:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add --track option to git clone Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1259707865-6561-1-git-send-email-sn_@gmx.net> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:51:03 +0100 David Soria Parra wrote: > The following series adds a --track option to git clone. If the --track option > is specified only the given remote branch will be received and checked out. IMHO, the term "track" is already overloaded in Git and this doesn't help make things clearer. > It tries to make the following usecase possible: > Imagine you are working on a project that has 1.x and a 2.x branch. The project > itself requires a complex setup (webserver, configuration files, etc). Setting up > 1.x and 2.x branch requires a lot of work, but a developer needs to maintain both. > He'll use the --track option to clone the 2.x branch into a directory and does the same > with the 1.x branch, where he setup the project. He can use locally separate repositories > while still being able to push to just one remote repository. This is already straightforward in Git without the limitation of tracking only a single remote branch. What is the necessity of doing this via the clone command? $ git init myrepo $ cd myrepo $ git remote add -t branch1.x -f origin $ git checkout -t origin/branch1.x Sean