Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.

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Hi,

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> > Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>:
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
> > 
> > Of course, you'd have to 
> > support this, too:
> > 
> > 	$ git clone --branch topic1 --branch topic2 git://...
> 
> Why is this useful?

For the same reasons it might be useful to track _all_ branches.

> and which branch to check out?

I'd say the first, but that's just my opinion.

> One can always get more branches later, is my approach.

Yes. But in the same vein, one can add _one_ branch to an empty repo 
either. So, with your reasoning, your patch wouldn't be needed to begin 
with.

But I find it useful. Even the version where you are not limited to one 
branch.

Ciao,
Dscho

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