From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, torarnv@gmail.com,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:48:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30903120148u52164fe3offe665bf70ef6d8d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoocw7s79y.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
>> $ git clone -n URL
>> $ git checkout -b foo origin/bar
>>
>> That being said, I see the following command as an improvement over
>> the actual GIT UI:
>>
>> $ git clone git://URI -b bar
>
> Note that in your original advice, foo and bar can be different, and
> it's not clear to me what "-b bar" should do...
>
> Personally I frequently use foo == bar (no local master branch), but I
> think another common pattern is foo != bar, but foo or bar == "master".
>
> Maybe a syntax similar to push, like "-b LOCAL_BR:REMOTE_BR",
> with "-b BR" being shorthand for "-b BR:BR"?
Yes, makes sense.
Ciao,
--
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
http://mypage.vodafone.it/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 22:11 [PATCH] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-02 23:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-03 0:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-03 0:11 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03 0:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03 9:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-03 16:47 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-03 17:04 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-04 6:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-04 8:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-04 10:23 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-09 14:39 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-03-09 16:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-03-11 8:52 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-03-12 4:18 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-12 8:48 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2009-03-12 9:12 ` Felipe Contreras
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