From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:18:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch
Message-ID: <buoocw7s79y.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30903110152m1b52de30ge630d6b9f6a4c7fe@mail.gmail.com>

Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> $ git clone -n URL
> $ git checkout -b foo origin/bar
>
> That being said, I see the following command as an improvement over
> the actual GIT UI:
>
>  $ git clone git://URI -b bar

Note that in your original advice, foo and bar can be different, and
it's not clear to me what "-b bar" should do...

Personally I frequently use foo == bar (no local master branch), but I
think another common pattern is foo != bar, but foo or bar == "master".

Maybe a syntax similar to push, like "-b LOCAL_BR:REMOTE_BR",
with "-b BR" being shorthand for "-b BR:BR"?

-Miles

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