Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> --mirror --single-branch combination does not look right. The "heads/" >>>> part is missing.. >>> >>> It also does not look right for cloning a tag: >>> >>> $ LANG=C ./git clone --single-branch --branch=v1.7.0 .git abc >> >> What does it even _mean_ to clone a single branch and give a tag, >> not a branch, to the --branch option? Again, shouldn't it be >> diagnosed as an error in the first place? > > That could be misleading. The original purpose is to clone just one > ref, be it a branch or a tag. You might want to work on top of a > specific version and may not want to clone everything. Yeah, see my other comments. -- 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