From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joakim Tjernlund" Subject: RE: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected branches? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:41:25 +0200 Message-ID: <011d01c80b8e$b0c0dc30$04ac10ac@Jocke> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: "'Johannes Schindelin'" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 11 00:41:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfkFF-00060B-HD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:41:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756230AbXJJWl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:41:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756212AbXJJWl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:41:28 -0400 Received: from mail.transmode.se ([83.241.175.147]:63842 "EHLO tmnt04.transmode.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756206AbXJJWl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:41:28 -0400 Received: from Jocke ([84.217.95.61]) by tmnt04.transmode.se with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:41:26 +0200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Thread-Index: AcgLiHXO1qaOrGbmTweEjwLbz2GHoAABDwSQ X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Oct 2007 22:41:26.0456 (UTC) FILETIME=[B1198380:01C80B8E] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > -----Original Message----- > From: Johannes Schindelin [mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de] > > Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > 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. > > Hey, it was just a try. Some people might get scared away from such tries > > Personally, I am not interested in the feature _you_ asked for, but I NP, if it only me that is interested then this is probably not such a good idea. > thought it might be pretty easy for you to rewrite > git-clone.sh to take > advantage of git-fetch and git-remote, and that your desired > feature would > be easier to add then. So easy that the whole thing would > have taken you > all of an hour or so. Well, now I had to take a look and I think you are overestimating my capabilities :) It is a 12KB script full of git-plumbing I have never used, nor do I do sh scripts well. It might be an hour for you, but I would probably have to spend the whole day :) Jocke > > But maybe somebody else is interested enough to scratch your itch. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > >