From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: git bug? + question Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:05:12 -0500 Message-ID: <20061104190512.GA2517@spearce.org> References: <20061103162422.b0bf105e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20061104050305.GA9003@spearce.org> <200611041852.23867.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 19:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sean , Junio C Hamano , Miles Bader , git@vger.kernel.org, Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200611041852.23867.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgQpf-00012b-0z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:05:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753611AbWKDTF1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:05:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753614AbWKDTF1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:05:27 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:2788 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753610AbWKDTF0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:05:26 -0500 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GgQpH-0008Ft-3d; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:05:07 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD68B20E491; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:05:12 -0500 (EST) To: Josef Weidendorfer Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Josef Weidendorfer wrote: > On Saturday 04 November 2006 06:03, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > After reading your reply you are probably correct. I can see there > > may be workflows that want every remote branch also created as a > > local branch. > > > > I could certainly live with a command line option to clone, e.g.: > > > > git clone --only vmdvt,vmtip user@host:/path... > > Still missing here: What branch should be checked out after > cloning? Ah. I probably should have also stated that my users should be doing -n as well with git clone, then using git checkout -b to create a new branch from one of the refs they did clone. (Reason is we strictly follow a topic branch model of development, with even the developer's local branches beginning with their initials.) But you have a good point. Cloning with say --only as I show above might be confusing as its not defined what branch to checkout after the clone. > Perhaps it is better to extend git-checkout to allow to do the > correct thing when the user specifies a read-only branch from > refs/remotes. E.g. with refs/remotes/origin/vmdvt, > > git checkout origin/vmdvt > > should create a new local branch refs/heads/vmdvt which forks > from remotes/origin/vmdvt (and abort with > error if refs/heads/vmdvt already exists without being the local > development branch for remotes/origin/vmdvt) Yes, that would work for our workflow. I won't try to speak about anyone else's. I'd also say that if the local branch (refs/heads/vmdvt) exists and if `git pull . origin/vmdvt` is going to be a fast-forward that the fast-forward should happen during the checkout. That way after the checkout is complete you really do have what is in origin/vmdvt, but are sitting on a local branch. --