Hi list, I've got a few questions from a friend that used git for the first time, I answered to all of them but the following. Scenario: He knows the URl of a git repository which contains a few branches. He is interested only to a single specific branch. He expected to manage to clone the specific remote branch with a single command, instead he had to learn the following procedure: $ git clone git://uri_of_the_repo localdir $ cd localdir $ git branch * master # OK, so now he cloned the whole repository and checked out the master branch $ git checkout mybranch origin/coolbranch Wouldn't be an improvement to let the user to specify which remote branch he want to be checked out after a clone? Something like: $ git clone git://uri_of_the_repo:coolbranch localdir to get a clone of the whole repository and to check out the origin/coolbranch remote branch? I quickly discussed this scenario on the #git channel and a user suggested to use the following procedure: $ git init $ git fetch git://uri_of_the_repo coolbranch which was new to me, I tried it as follow: $ git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man remote: Counting objects: 7319, done.←[K remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1536/1536), done.←[K remote: Total 7319 (delta 5640), reused 7290 (delta 5625)←[K Receiving objects: 100% (7319/7319), 1.40 MiB | 110 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (5640/5640), done. >From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * branch man -> FETCH_HEAD but now I don't understand how to checkout the branch :-/ Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ http://mypage.vodafone.it/ -- 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
