On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:27:52 +0100, "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santi_B=E9jar?=" wrote:
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> Actually it is the same "problem" as when you want to work on the
> non-HEAD remote branch.

Yes, exactly.

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> It would be nice if:
>
> git clone -b ${branch} git://...
>
> would be equivalent of the above three commands.

Yes, something like that would be extremely helpful!

In addition, it would be great to have a command that did the same
setup within an existing repository.

And I would be most happy if the two commands for these two use cases
shared as much syntax as possible, so I could publish one string and
users could cut-and-paste it to either command as appropriate.

One string I would have liked would have been "git://... ${branch}",
but existing git-clone and git-fetch command syntax is not too
amenable for that, (git-clone interprets an argument after the URL as
the name of the local directory to create while git-fetch interprets
the argument after the URL as a refspec).

-Carl