On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:05PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > No, AFAIK there isn't a simpler way to do it. But it is something people > > have asked about before, so I think it would be a nice addition. > > > > You can't even use "git remote" because it doesn't allow you to tweak > > the refspecs you add. [...] > > It doesn't? Strange, I thought that is what '-t <branch>' option > for "git remote add" for ;-)))) Oh, indeed. For some reason I thought that was about setting up tracking for branches. So yes, Avery would be much better off in his example with git remote add -t master origin git://whatever But it would still be even nicer to have "clone -t master". -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html