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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Roald de Vries <rdv@roalddevries.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clone
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:24:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090720152407.GC5347@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D229D90E-0294-475D-B7AC-6C7B23CC169A@roalddevries.nl>

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 04:33:51PM +0200, Roald de Vries wrote:

> If I clone a repository with multiple branches to 'newdir', and then
> type 'git branch' in 'newdir', I see only 1 branch. 'git branch -r'
> gives me all branches. Is that correct behaviour? If so, why? And
> mainly: can I configure git to clone all original branches to non-
> remote branches?

Yes, it's correct. You really only need local branches of things you are
going to work on. And then that happens, you generally would just "git
checkout -b foo origin/foo" to make your own local "foo" branch that you
will be working on (or if you are using topic branches, something more
like "git checkout -b mytopic origin/master"). If you are just
inspecting branches (e.g., checking them out to try building, doing
diffs against them, using them as reference points for logging, etc),
then the remote versions are fine.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20 14:33 clone Roald de Vries
2009-07-20 15:24 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-07-21  8:05 ` clone Michael J Gruber
2009-07-21  9:56   ` clone Roald de Vries

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