Re: [PATCH v2] Add --track option to git clone

[Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>]

Quoting Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

> I would find something like this useful for cloning git.git, where I
> explicitly fetch maint, master, next, and pu, but none of html, man, or
> todo. This makes "gitk --all" much nicer to view.

Thank you for explaining. I now can understand why it can be useful.

>   # most general case
>   git clone -f 'refs/heads/subset/*:refs/remotes/origin/*' remote.git

Because this is only about branches and no other kinds of 
references, I think this is an overkill.

>   git clone -f 'subset/*' remote.git

But I think this is a good idea.

>   # multiple -f should add multiple refspec lines
>   git clone -f maint -f master -f next -f pu git.git
>
>   # choose your favorite branch
>   git clone -f maint -f master -f next -f pu -b next git.git
> ...
> What do you think?

I think your rule to make first branch given by -f the default 
for -b is a good idea. But I'm not very happy with the example 
with four -f. Can we probably write it like this?

  git clone -f maint,master,next,pu git.git

If it isn't a good idea to use comma, we can use colon to split 
the list of branch names instead.

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Nanako Shiraishi
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