On 2009-12-02, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1. Add "--track foo" as a convenience wrapper for "-f foo -b foo". > > 2. If no "-b" is given, the first "-f" is assumed as "-b". So "git > clone -f foo" becomes equivalent to David's --track. > > And of course the name "-f" (for --fetch, if you were wondering) is open > to suggestion. > > What do you think? > This approach is much better than my initial proposal. Sadly I won't have time to implement this, which is why I wrote the simplest working solution for me. Fetch seems to reasonable. I can rewrite the patch to be able to use refspecs, but it would require additional refactoring to be able to specify multiple --fetch parameters. David -- 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