Re: git-branch, older repos and more confusion

Jeff King wrote:

quoted

Alas - I think support for it seems to be going the away... what I am
missing is a clear way to say git-clone <repo>#branch that has the
same properties that `cg-clone <repo>#branch` has. Namely, once you
are done, there are clear names for your "local tip" and "remote tip",
and push and pull do the right thing without extra params.
    

I don't think there is a way to clone _just_ that branch, but if you're
OK with fetching all of the branches, then you should be able to do
just:

git-clone <repo>
git-branch --track branch origin/branch
git-checkout branch
  

You can;

 mkdir moodle
 cd moodle
 git-init
 git-remote add -t mdl-topnz -f origin \
    git://git.catalyst.net.nz/moodle.git

But yes, not as easy as "cg-clone git://...#branch"

I sent a patch for 'git remote prune -c' recently that would help in the
transition between the two remotes formats.

Sam.