On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > Here's a link to a recent thread on this topic (that started with a proposed patch) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111967 You can read the arguments there. Johannes Schindelin noted that the normal way to do this is like this: <quote> Besides, the common way to check out something different than the remote's HEAD is like this: $ git clone -n $URL $ cd $DIR $ git checkout -t origin/$BRANCH </quote> > 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 > -- 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
