From: Norbert Nemec <norbert.nemec@native-instruments.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: shallow&single-branch clone?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:30:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9ED108.5020505@native-instruments.de> (raw)
Hi there,
it seems like there is no way to clone a single branch with truncated
history.
Truncating history is done by 'git clone --depth 1', there is not way to
restrict 'clone' to a single branch (the --branch option still downloads
all branches and only then chooses something other than HEAD as active
branch).
The manual sequence
git init
git remote add -t master -f origin URL
git checkout
allows a clone of a single branch but offers no means to truncate history.
The least intrusive solution would be an additional option to clone,
perhaps '--branch-only'.
More user friendly, this options should be on by default when --depth is
set. After all: who would expect branches to be cloned when the history
is explicitely truncated?
Ideas?
Greetings,
Norbert Nemec
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 13:40 UTC|newest]
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2011-10-19 13:30 Norbert Nemec [this message]
2011-10-21 1:22 ` shallow&single-branch clone? Jeff King
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