Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes: > > Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > The options --branch and -b allow the user to override the initial > > branch created and checked out by git-clone (normally this is the > > active branch of the remote repository). > > > > If the selected branch is not found the operation aborts. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv <at> gmail.com> > > The semantics and desirability of the new feature have been already > discussed, and I am not convinced that it is necessary, in the sense that > I do not think I likely ever use this myself, but I am just one of git > users so that is not a strong basis for rejection. I wrote a comment about the --branch approach a couple of days ago, dunno why but this thread never reached my inbox (replying via gmame web interface). http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112527 As I wrote in my post a friend of mine, new to git, was looking for the possibility of cloning a repo and automatically checkout a specific branch. Regards, Paolo -- 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
