From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:12:16 +0200 Message-ID: <94a0d4530903120212m360c1db8y763b69bc8610ae64@mail.gmail.com> References: <1236040414-19089-1-git-send-email-torarnv@gmail.com> <7vbpsh93q5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <94a0d4530903090901o6e8c2a40k676387f90ee461b3@mail.gmail.com> <4d8e3fd30903110152m1b52de30ge630d6b9f6a4c7fe@mail.gmail.com> <4d8e3fd30903120148u52164fe3offe665bf70ef6d8d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Miles Bader , git@vger.kernel.org, torarnv@gmail.com, Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin To: Paolo Ciarrocchi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 12 10:14:52 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 1Lhgz9-00055V-2C for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751690AbZCLJMV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:12:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751459AbZCLJMT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:12:19 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:43173 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751156AbZCLJMT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:12:19 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so87393fgg.17 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:12:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=LgRwI/YZ/JeFJDiEq2bsitxi4KL2GXI9OZfsq+B/w+c=; b=oDIHfxS7SnKApWT0tRQjbCV5nvjTmHXc3WQS1pZNdTENi6azf0tjSK7V8ZE3B3fYcK 9kE+UA5BRaP5B1fG4A4oL3aUafdM2We3pAwoYz6urYRBa4Nq3JyWpC+jEp7964Syr7au tWtosm0KSglcYFre1RcJ0NnSGDUBz4fIiRjvk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NBSGMA1B9JEnwxVdNEFmTXulF2bkyDhW0wKAG7MUBJXb9UkjWbe5yIeQxk0FDL/Wj/ D2IJ4UW6PamEDRyy3FSu/AKvhSUol6GcZsWzqz65L5QfdXeyHucwQMGabvqQlYTuooKR UMpXzj+iELCzVb6w5lJPQ+gUpjSN1aVL0CUCo= Received: by 10.86.94.11 with SMTP id r11mr6586213fgb.53.1236849136200; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:12:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30903120148u52164fe3offe665bf70ef6d8d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Miles Bader wrote: >> Paolo Ciarrocchi 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: >>> >>> =C2=A0$ 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 =3D=3D bar (no local master branch),= but I >> think another common pattern is foo !=3D bar, but foo or bar =3D=3D = "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 --=20 =46elipe Contreras