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Re: [PATCHv4] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2012, 01:04 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> 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. For cloning a tag, we're put in detached head state immediately.

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Duy
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Message 34 of 39 in “is this behaviour expected for "git clone --single-branch"?”
  1. Ralf ThielowSep 13, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  3. Ralf ThielowSep 13, 2012
  4. clone: fix refspec on "--single-branch" optionRalf Thielow, Sep 14, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 14, 2012
  8. Ralf ThielowSep 14, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  10. [PATCHv2] clone: fix refspec on "--single-branch" optionRalf Thielow, Sep 14, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  12. [PATCHv3] clone: fix refspec on "--single-branch" optionRalf Thielow, Sep 14, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  14. [PATCHv4] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchRalf Thielow, Sep 16, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  16. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 17, 2012
  17. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 17, 2012
  18. [PATCHv5] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchRalf Thielow, Sep 17, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  20. Ralf ThielowSep 17, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  22. Ralf ThielowSep 18, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2012
  24. [PATCHv6] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchRalf Thielow, Sep 18, 2012
  25. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2012
  27. [PATCHv7] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchRalf Thielow, Sep 19, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2012
  29. [PATCHv8] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchRalf Thielow, Sep 20, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2012
  31. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 19, 2012
  32. Ralf ThielowSep 19, 2012
  33. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  34. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 18, 2012
  35. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2012
  36. Ralf ThielowSep 17, 2012
  37. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2012
  38. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 18, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012

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