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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:09:45 -0700
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> --mirror --single-branch combination does not look right. The "heads/"
>> part is missing..
>
> It also does not look right for cloning a tag:
>
> $ LANG=C ./git clone --single-branch --branch=v1.7.0 .git abc

What does it even _mean_ to clone a single branch and give a tag,
not a branch, to the --branch option?  Again, shouldn't it be
diagnosed as an error in the first place?