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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 23:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710110000420.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <011d01c80b8e$b0c0dc30$04ac10ac@Jocke>

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johannes Schindelin [mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de] 
> > 
> > thought it might be pretty easy for you to rewrite git-clone.sh to 
> > take advantage of git-fetch and git-remote, and that your desired 
> > feature would be easier to add then.  So easy that the whole thing 
> > would have taken you all of an hour or so.
> 
> Well, now I had to take a look and I think you are overestimating my 
> capabilities :) It is a 12KB script full of git-plumbing I have never 
> used, nor do I do sh scripts well. It might be an hour for you, but I 
> would probably have to spend the whole day :)

Heh. git-clone is pretty crowded. But it predates git-remote. And I have a hunch that git-clone will be a trivial script when it calls git-remote and the git-fetch.

Ciao, Dscho