# Specifying default checkout branch in url

2 messages from 2008-12-11 to 2008-12-11. Participants: Resul Cetin, Mikael Magnusson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16682

## Resul Cetin, 2008-12-11 11:21

Subject: Specifying default checkout branch in url
Message-ID: <200812111221.36561.Resul-Cetin@gmx.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200812111221.36561.Resul-Cetin%40gmx.net

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Hi,
I have the problem that I want to checkout a specific branch in a git-clone 
run. Someone at the debian-mentors mailing list[1] has suggested to use a url 
like git://git.myserver.org/project.git#branchname to checkout a branch with 
the name branchname by default. But this doesn't seem to work. Is there 
already another way to encode this in the url?
More information why I cannot change HEAD of the repository can be found in a 
bug report against debcheckout[2].

Regards,
	Resul

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors/34421
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508433

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## Mikael Magnusson, 2008-12-11 11:45

Subject: Re: Specifying default checkout branch in url
Message-ID: <237967ef0812110345h51b79f13mefc45501ecb5b1b3@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/237967ef0812110345h51b79f13mefc45501ecb5b1b3%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <200812111221.36561.Resul-Cetin@gmx.net>

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2008/12/11 Resul Cetin <Resul-Cetin@gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> I have the problem that I want to checkout a specific branch in a git-clone
> run. Someone at the debian-mentors mailing list[1] has suggested to use a url
> like git://git.myserver.org/project.git#branchname to checkout a branch with
> the name branchname by default. But this doesn't seem to work. Is there
> already another way to encode this in the url?
> More information why I cannot change HEAD of the repository can be found in a
> bug report against debcheckout[2].
>
> Regards,
>        Resul
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors/34421
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508433

Use a git init, remote add, fetch branchname:branchname sequence.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

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