Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 1, 2007, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702020050190.18870@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070201234706.GP17617@mellanox.co.il>

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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> > Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
> > 
> > Of course, you'd have to 
> > support this, too:
> > 
> > 	$ git clone --branch topic1 --branch topic2 git://...
> 
> Why is this useful?

For the same reasons it might be useful to track _all_ branches.

> and which branch to check out?

I'd say the first, but that's just my opinion.

> One can always get more branches later, is my approach.

Yes. But in the same vein, one can add _one_ branch to an empty repo either. So, with your reasoning, your patch wouldn't be needed to begin with.

But I find it useful. Even the version where you are not limited to one branch.

Ciao, Dscho