Jeff King wrote: >> Alas - I think support for it seems to be going the away... what I am >> missing is a clear way to say git-clone <repo>#branch that has the >> same properties that `cg-clone <repo>#branch` has. Namely, once you >> are done, there are clear names for your "local tip" and "remote tip", >> and push and pull do the right thing without extra params. >> > > I don't think there is a way to clone _just_ that branch, but if you're > OK with fetching all of the branches, then you should be able to do > just: > > git-clone <repo> > git-branch --track branch origin/branch > git-checkout branch > You can; mkdir moodle cd moodle git-init git-remote add -t mdl-topnz -f origin \ git://git.catalyst.net.nz/moodle.git But yes, not as easy as "cg-clone git://...#branch" I sent a patch for 'git remote prune -c' recently that would help in the transition between the two remotes formats. Sam. - 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