From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:10:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908281238350.18415@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90908280405o1e86bf4fo60eb07957ce9158a@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tor Arne Vestb?<torarnv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Glad to see this topic being revised. Here's the original discussion for
>> reference:
>
> ISTR that early git supported this -- maybe just on the HTTP
> implementation? I sure remember writing
>
>   git clone http://host/foo.git#branchname
>
> and getting a cloned repo where 'branchname' was tracking
> 'origin/branchname', and was checked out as HEAD.

Did you use cogito perhaps?  That had #branch syntax IIRC ...

> It would have been dropped by the switch to C builtins :-/
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
>

-- 
Julian

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