From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone. Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:01:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20070201230100.GL17617@mellanox.co.il> References: <20070201220657.GB19271@fieldses.org> Reply-To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 02 00:00:40 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 1HCkv2-0002hG-6y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422681AbXBAXAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:00:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422686AbXBAXAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:00:35 -0500 Received: from p02c11o143.mxlogic.net ([208.65.145.66]:59166 "EHLO p02c11o143.mxlogic.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422681AbXBAXAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:00:35 -0500 Received: from unknown [194.90.237.34] (EHLO mtlexch01.mtl.com) by p02c11o143.mxlogic.net (mxl_mta-4.0.2-2) with ESMTP id 21172c54.2106149808.6789.00-013.p02c11o143.mxlogic.net (envelope-from ); Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:00:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from mellanox.co.il ([10.4.4.6]) by mtlexch01.mtl.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:02:34 +0200 Received: by mellanox.co.il (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:00:00 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070201220657.GB19271@fieldses.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2007 23:02:34.0846 (UTC) FILETIME=[0F6F37E0:01C74655] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.0.0.1526-3.6.1039-14972.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--6.084300-4.000000-31 X-Spam: [F=0.0100000000; S=0.010(2007010901)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [194.90.237.34] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Quoting J. Bruce Fields : > Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone. > > 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. Shawn already answered that, I concur. -- MST