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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git clone --checkout <branch>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:12:41 +0800
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Hi,

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:48:42PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
>
>> what do you guys think about allowing users to specify the branch to
>> checkout when cloning, instead of the default HEAD of the to-be-cloned
>> repository?
>
> I think it's a great idea, but that we should call it "--branch" and
> that I should travel back in time to implement it last September as
> 7a4ee28.

ah, yet another RTFM, my bad. :)

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan