Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected branches?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710102032330.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <011401c80b6f$1a11d1f0$04ac10ac@Jocke>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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> To my knowlede a git clone always clones all branches from the remote 
> repo. I would like the possibly to clone selected branches, like
>  git clone <repo URL> -b master -b upstream
> which will only fetch the master and upstream branch.
> 
> I know I can use git remote to do this, but it is a bit clumsy when 
> starting a new repo.

This is why I suggest: since it is an itch of yours, just fix it. You are in the prime position to know when you're satisfied.

As a hint how to start: Junio dreamt of a git-clone which is a tiny wrapper around git-fetch and git-remote.

So you could start by writing a script which would be a replacement for git-clone.sh, and there you can also include the support for -b that you would like so much.

It would be nice, though, to keep this in separate patches, which you then submit to this list.

Thank you, Dscho