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From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Clone a repo and checkout a specifc remote branch
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 00:25:15 +0100
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On 3/7/09, Patrick Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Something like:
>> $ git clone git://uri_of_the_repo:coolbranch localdir
>> to get a clone of the whole repository and to check out the
>> origin/coolbranch remote branch?
>>
>
> Here's a link to a recent thread on this topic (that started with a
> proposed patch)
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111967
>
> You can read the arguments there.  Johannes Schindelin noted that the
> normal way to do this is like this:
>
> <quote>
> Besides, the common way to check out something different than the remote's
> HEAD is like this:
>
> $ git clone -n $URL
> $ cd $DIR
> $ git checkout -t origin/$BRANCH
> </quote>

Thank you, very appreciated, I missed that discussion.

I'll add my comments to that thread.

Regards,
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Paolo
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