Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
quoted text
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org] 
>> Sent: den 10 oktober 2007 21:38
>> To: Joakim Tjernlund
>> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git clone, just clone selected 
>> branches?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>>> I know I can use git remote to do this, but it is a bit clumsy 
>>> when starting a new repo.
>> How about just
>>
>> 	git init
>> 	.. set up remote tracking info in .git/config ..
>> 	git fetch remote
>>
>> which should do what you want.
>>
>> 		Linus
> 
> From git remote man page:
>  o  Imitate git clone but track only selected branches
> 
>           $ mkdir project.git
>           $ cd project.git
>           $ git init
>           $ git remote add -f -t master -m master origin git://example.com/git.git/
>           $ git merge origin
> 
> yes, this does the trick too but that is more to type so I thought
> it would be simpler if I could just tell git clone which branches I want.
> Now, this isn't a killer feature to me so if you don't like it, I good
> with that too.
> 

Well, that's how git-clone should probably look, now that git-remote exists.

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