From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Specifying default checkout branch in url
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:45:22 +0100
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2008/12/11 Resul Cetin <Resul-Cetin@gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> I have the problem that I want to checkout a specific branch in a git-clone
> run. Someone at the debian-mentors mailing list[1] has suggested to use a url
> like git://git.myserver.org/project.git#branchname to checkout a branch with
> the name branchname by default. But this doesn't seem to work. Is there
> already another way to encode this in the url?
> More information why I cannot change HEAD of the repository can be found in a
> bug report against debcheckout[2].
>
> Regards,
>        Resul
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors/34421
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508433

Use a git init, remote add, fetch branchname:branchname sequence.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson