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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow cloning branches selectively
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:28:39 -0800 (PST)
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Carlos Mart=C3=ADn Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

> Sometimes it's useful to clone only a subset of branches from a remot=
e
> we're cloning. Teach clone the --fetch option to select which branche=
s
> should get fetched.
>=20
> 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] ...

--=20
Jakub Narebski