On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:17:32 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So the way you'd normally set up a single repo that contains multiple
> other existing repositories is to basically start with one ("git clone")
> and then add the other branches and "git fetch" them.
For that we'd also need a way for clone to be able to fetch just a
single branch, and not all of them as well.
There is some clone vs. fetch asymmetry here that has annoyed me for a
while, and that I don't think has been mentioned in this thread
yet. Namely:
clone: can only be executed once, fetches all branches, "remembers"
URLs for later simplified use
fetch: can be executed many times, fetches only named branches,
doesn't remember anything for later
I've often been in the situation where I cloned a long time ago, but
I'd like to be able to fetch everything that I would get if I were to
start a fresh clone.
-Carl
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