From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:51:25 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr61eblde.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <49AD5F0D.8000700@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Tor Arne =?utf-8?Q?Vestb=C3=B8?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 03 17:53:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LeXrb-0007Nu-BX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:53:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752980AbZCCQvf convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:51:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751809AbZCCQvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:51:35 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:35676 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751788AbZCCQve convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:51:34 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CA99EB82; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:51:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D62399EB7F; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:51:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <49AD5F0D.8000700@gmail.com> (Tor Arne =?utf-8?Q?Vestb=C3=B8'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:47:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8C640776-0813-11DE-9C9A-CFA5EBB1AA3C-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tor Arne Vestb=C3=B8 writes: > If you would like to contribute to the stable 1.6 branch, do: > $ git clone -n git://git.foo.com/project.git > $ cd project > $ git checkout -t origin/1.6 > $ git branch -D master > Which is not so nice and inviting. If you are working on 1.6 maintenance track, why discard 'master'? If = the upstream project calls it 1.6, you can call your fork 1.6 and keep that checked out. IOW, _you_ are make it not nice.