From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "Tor Arne Vestbø" <torarnv@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Korinskiy" <catap@catap.ru>,
gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net,
B.Steinbrink@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:05:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90908280405o1e86bf4fo60eb07957ce9158a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A97B1F3.5060408@gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø<torarnv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad to see this topic being revised. Here's the original discussion for
> reference:
ISTR that early git supported this -- maybe just on the HTTP
implementation? I sure remember writing
git clone http://host/foo.git#branchname
and getting a cloned repo where 'branchname' was tracking
'origin/branchname', and was checked out as HEAD.
It would have been dropped by the switch to C builtins :-/
cheers,
m
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87praj90n8.wl%catap@catap.ru>
2009-08-25 19:25 ` [PATCH] Add option -b/--branch to clone for select a new HEAD Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 19:27 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 21:57 ` Jeff King
2009-08-25 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-25 22:36 ` Björn Steinbrink
[not found] ` <87ljl694fd.wl%catap@catap.ru>
2009-08-26 12:16 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-08-26 14:46 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-26 15:50 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-08-26 16:10 ` Jeff King
2009-08-26 16:56 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-08-26 17:48 ` Jeff King
2009-08-26 19:05 ` Jeff King
2009-08-28 10:31 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-08-28 11:05 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2009-08-28 12:10 ` Julian Phillips
2009-08-24 20:42 Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 1:57 ` Jeff King
2009-08-25 2:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-25 17:20 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
2009-08-25 19:00 ` Jeff King
2009-08-25 12:30 ` Kirill A. Korinskiy
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