From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: git bug? + question Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:53:58 +0000 Message-ID: <454F0636.1060406@shadowen.org> References: <20061103162422.b0bf105e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20061104050305.GA9003@spearce.org> <200611041852.23867.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Shawn Pearce , Sean , Junio C Hamano , Miles Bader , git@vger.kernel.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060927) In-Reply-To: <200611041852.23867.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public-key Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh1BR-0005YH-Od for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:54:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423682AbWKFJyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:54:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423684AbWKFJyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:54:22 -0500 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:6410 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423682AbWKFJyV (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:54:21 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by hellhawk.shadowen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gh1AP-0005VM-Cs; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:53:21 +0000 To: Josef Weidendorfer Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Josef Weidendorfer wrote: > On Saturday 04 November 2006 06:03, Shawn Pearce wrote: >> After reading your reply you are probably correct. I can see there >> may be workflows that want every remote branch also created as a >> local branch. >> >> I could certainly live with a command line option to clone, e.g.: >> >> git clone --only vmdvt,vmtip user@host:/path... > > Still missing here: What branch should be checked out after > cloning? Does any need to be checked out? Or perhap I should put it another way, when we make a virgin repository we default to master checked out but its not joined to the DAG. Perhaps we can just init-db and fetch the specified branches and we are done. The user will then checkout things as they need and if they do not need master they can lose it. > > Perhaps it is better to extend git-checkout to allow to do the > correct thing when the user specifies a read-only branch from > refs/remotes. E.g. with refs/remotes/origin/vmdvt, > > git checkout origin/vmdvt > > should create a new local branch refs/heads/vmdvt which forks > from remotes/origin/vmdvt (and abort with > error if refs/heads/vmdvt already exists without being the local > development branch for remotes/origin/vmdvt), add to .git/config > > [branch "vmdvt"] > remote = origin > merge = remotes/origin/vmdvt > > and switch to this new created branch. > > Given this addition to git-checkout, the implicit default > action after cloning with --use-separate-remote should be > > git checkout origin/master > > where "master" can be changed on the git-clone command line > to another branch, e.g. "--checkout vmdvt". > > IMHO, this addition to git-checkout would make it a lot > easier to work with --use-separate-remote, as there, > every branch other the master is read-only. > > And if you have two remote repositories with a master branch > each, and you want to develop locally on both, this could > be accomplished with > > git checkout -b othermaster remotes/otherrepo/master -apw