From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Korinskiy" <catap@catap.ru>,
gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:13:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxbgvdx8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825015726.GB7655@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon\, 24 Aug 2009 21\:57\:26 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:42:48AM +0400, Kirill A. Korinskiy wrote:
>
>> Sometimes (especially on production systems) we need to use only one
>> remote branch for building software. It really annoying to clone
>> origin and then swith branch by hand everytime. So this patch provide
>> functionality to clone remote branch with one command without using
>> checkout after clone.
>
> If you are doing this a lot, it is probably a sign that you should
> repoint the "HEAD" of the parent repository.
>
> That being said, you may want one branch half the time, and another
> branch the other half. So I think this is a good feature.
>
> A few comments:
Very good review snipped, as I agree with everything you said (except that
you did not point out the lack of sign-off).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 20:42 [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 1:57 ` Jeff King
2009-08-25 2:13 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-08-25 17:20 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 19:00 ` Jeff King
2009-08-25 12:30 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
[not found] <87praj90n8.wl%catap@catap.ru>
2009-08-25 19:25 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 19:27 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 21:57 ` Jeff King
2009-08-25 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-25 22:36 ` Björn Steinbrink
[not found] ` <87ljl694fd.wl%catap@catap.ru>
2009-08-26 12:16 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-08-26 14:46 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-26 15:50 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-08-26 16:10 ` Jeff King
2009-08-26 16:56 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-08-26 17:48 ` Jeff King
2009-08-26 19:05 ` Jeff King
2009-08-28 10:31 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-08-28 11:05 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-08-28 12:10 ` Julian Phillips
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