Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi
<paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1

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Felipe Contreras