# [PATCH] clone: don't say <branch> when we mean <remote>

2 messages from 2011-12-21 to 2011-12-21. Participants: Carlos Martín Nieto, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29231

## Carlos Martín Nieto, 2011-12-21 18:14

Subject: [PATCH] clone: don't say <branch> when we mean <remote>
Message-ID: <1324491249-5357-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1324491249-5357-1-git-send-email-cmn%40elego.de

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Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
---

The manpage says <name> which might actually be a better word to use
everywhere, but having <branch> instead of <remote> can only lead to
confusion.

Looking through blame, the second line survived a typo fix and was
introduced in 2008 when clone was made a builtin. The script used to
say <name>. So it's clearly nothing urgent, but it bugged me, so I'm
sending a patch.

 builtin/clone.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index efe8b6c..e85ee69 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
 		   "directory from which templates will be used"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0 , "reference", &option_reference, "repo",
 		     "reference repository", &opt_parse_reference),
-	OPT_STRING('o', "origin", &option_origin, "branch",
-		   "use <branch> instead of 'origin' to track upstream"),
+	OPT_STRING('o', "origin", &option_origin, "remote",
+		   "use <remote> instead of 'origin' to track upstream"),
 	OPT_STRING('b', "branch", &option_branch, "branch",
 		   "checkout <branch> instead of the remote's HEAD"),
 	OPT_STRING('u', "upload-pack", &option_upload_pack, "path",
-- 
1.7.8.352.g876a6f

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## Junio C Hamano, 2011-12-21 19:25

Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: don't say <branch> when we mean <remote>
Message-ID: <7vwr9pg21y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vwr9pg21y.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1324491249-5357-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>

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Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

> Looking through blame, the second line survived a typo fix and was
> introduced in 2008 when clone was made a builtin. The script used to
> say <name>. So it's clearly nothing urgent, but it bugged me, so I'm
> sending a patch.

Thanks.

How I hated these "rewrite in C" now comes back piece by piece, trickling
in. That's the price of progress, I guess.

```