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From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, torarnv@gmail.com,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial  branch
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:48:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30903120148u52164fe3offe665bf70ef6d8d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoocw7s79y.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

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.

Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
http://mypage.vodafone.it/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02 22:11 [PATCH] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-02 23:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-03  0:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-03  0:11   ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03  0:33   ` [PATCH v2] " Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03  9:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-03 16:47       ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03 16:51         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-03 17:04           ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-03 17:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-04  6:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-04  8:56       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-04 10:23       ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2009-03-09 14:39       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-03-09 16:01         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-03-11  8:52           ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2009-03-12  4:18             ` Miles Bader
2009-03-12  8:48               ` Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2009-03-12  9:12                 ` Felipe Contreras

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