RE: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected branches?

["Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Schindelin [mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de] 
> Sent: den 10 oktober 2007 21:35
> To: Joakim Tjernlund
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected 
> branches?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> > To my knowlede a git clone always clones all branches from 
> the remote 
> > repo. I would like the possibly to clone selected branches, like
> >  git clone <repo URL> -b master -b upstream
> > which will only fetch the master and upstream branch.
> > 
> > I know I can use git remote to do this, but it is a bit clumsy when 
> > starting a new repo.
> 
> This is why I suggest: since it is an itch of yours, just fix 
> it.  You are 
> in the prime position to know when you're satisfied.
> 
> As a hint how to start: Junio dreamt of a git-clone which is a tiny 
> wrapper around git-fetch and git-remote.
> 
> So you could start by writing a script which would be a 
> replacement for 
> git-clone.sh, and there you can also include the support for 
> -b that you 
> would like so much.
> 
> It would be nice, though, to keep this in separate patches, 
> which you then 
> submit to this list.
> 
> Thank you,
> Dscho

Thank you for these words of visdom, I should know better
than to throw out ideas like this. Next time I have an suggestion
I will think long and hard about it before posting again. 

 Jocke