On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:30:48PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > Truncating history is done by 'git clone --depth 1', there is not way > to restrict 'clone' to a single branch (the --branch option still > downloads all branches and only then chooses something other than > HEAD as active branch). > > The manual sequence > git init > git remote add -t master -f origin URL > git checkout > allows a clone of a single branch but offers no means to truncate history. You can do: git init git remote add -t master origin URL git fetch --depth=1 git checkout But obviously that's not as nice as an option to clone. > The least intrusive solution would be an additional option to clone, > perhaps '--branch-only'. Agreed, that would be better. We might want to make it more flexible, like: git clone --fetch=branch1 --fetch=branch2 and then by default choose "-b branch1" since it was mentioned first. > More user friendly, this options should be on by default when --depth > is set. After all: who would expect branches to be cloned when the > history is explicitely truncated? Yeah, that probably makes sense. If the branches are related, it's probably not saving much, but if you have unrelated branches, it would be a nice convenience. OTOH, how would you tell git "no, I really do want the tip of every branch"? -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