From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow cloning branches selectively
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:28:39 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hb0ofwem.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324671199-7074-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> Sometimes it's useful to clone only a subset of branches from a remote
> we're cloning. Teach clone the --fetch option to select which branches
> should get fetched.
>
> Each --fetch sets up a fetch refspec for that branch. Previously this
> was only possible by initializing a repo and manually setting up the
> config.
I haven't read the code, but I guess it should be possible to share
code with "git remote add", which allows to select which branches to
track, and which branch is to be 'main' on remote.
git remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] ...
--
Jakub Narebski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-25 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-23 20:13 [RFC PATCH] Allow cloning branches selectively Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-12-23 21:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-25 20:37 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-12-24 4:31 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-12-25 19:00 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-12-25 16:28 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-12-25 17:43 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
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