On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø<torarnv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Glad to see this topic being revised. Here's the original discussion for > reference: ISTR that early git supported this -- maybe just on the HTTP implementation? I sure remember writing git clone http://host/foo.git#branchname and getting a cloned repo where 'branchname' was tracking 'origin/branchname', and was checked out as HEAD. It would have been dropped by the switch to C builtins :-/ cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- 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