Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch

Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com> writes:

quoted

The options --branch and -b allow the user to override the initial
branch created and checked out by git-clone (normally this is the
active branch of the remote repository).

If the selected branch is not found the operation aborts.

Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com>

The semantics and desirability of the new feature have been already
discussed, and I am not convinced that it is necessary, in the sense that
I do not think I likely ever use this myself, but I am just one of git
users so that is not a strong basis for rejection.

I wrote a comment about the --branch approach a couple of days ago, dunno why
but this thread never reached my inbox (replying via gmame web interface).

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112527

As I wrote in my post a friend of mine, new to git, was looking for the
possibility of cloning a repo and automatically checkout a specific branch.

Regards,
           Paolo