From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone. Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:06:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20070201220657.GB19271@fieldses.org> References: <20070201220122.GF17617@mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 01 23:07:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCk5D-0002Db-Rc for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:07:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751409AbXBAWHD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:07:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751616AbXBAWHD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:07:03 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:53123 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751409AbXBAWHB (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:07:01 -0500 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HCk53-0005b0-61; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:06:57 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070201220122.GF17617@mellanox.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > I'm often annoyed by the fact that when I clone from this repository, > I get a copy of all topic branches and origin tracking master > by default, when I actually might only want to work on a different > topic. And getting all extra branches is annoying on a slow connection. Can you quantify "annoying"? Not a challenge, I'm just curious--I would've thought that, for most projects, even with long-lived topic branches, it wouldn't be that expensive to get a second branch once you'd gotten one. --b.