From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:39:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch
Message-ID: <loom.20090309T143413-334@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpsh93q5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The options --branch and -b allow the user to override the initial
> > branch created and checked out by git-clone (normally this is the
> > active branch of the remote repository).
> >
> > If the selected branch is not found the operation aborts.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com>
> 
> The semantics and desirability of the new feature have been already
> discussed, and I am not convinced that it is necessary, in the sense that
> I do not think I likely ever use this myself, but I am just one of git
> users so that is not a strong basis for rejection.

I wrote a comment about the --branch approach a couple of days ago, dunno why
but this thread never reached my inbox (replying via gmame web interface).

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112527

As I wrote in my post a friend of mine, new to git, was looking for the
possibility of cloning a repo and automatically checkout a specific branch.

Regards,
           Paolo