Re: Quick way to clone exactly one branch

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 28, 2009, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <m3ljohas9x.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090528201503.GL13499@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:45:44PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> 
> > Is there a quick alternative to the following?
> > 
> >    mkdir myproj
> >    cd myproj
> >    git init
> >    git fetch git://whatever master
> >    git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
> > 
> > Basically, the above is a lot like 'git clone' but only clones the
> > 'master' branch.  For really big projects with lots of junk in other
> > branches, the above can save a lot of bandwidth.
> 
> No, AFAIK there isn't a simpler way to do it. But it is something people
> have asked about before, so I think it would be a nice addition.
> 
> You can't even use "git remote" because it doesn't allow you to tweak
> the refspecs you add. [...]

It doesn't? Strange, I thought that is what '-t <branch>' option for "git remote add" for ;-))))

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