Jeff King wrote:
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>> Alas - I think support for it seems to be going the away... what I am
>> missing is a clear way to say git-clone <repo>#branch that has the
>> same properties that `cg-clone <repo>#branch` has. Namely, once you
>> are done, there are clear names for your "local tip" and "remote tip",
>> and push and pull do the right thing without extra params.
>>     
>
> I don't think there is a way to clone _just_ that branch, but if you're
> OK with fetching all of the branches, then you should be able to do
> just:
>
> git-clone <repo>
> git-branch --track branch origin/branch
> git-checkout branch
>   

You can;

 mkdir moodle
 cd moodle
 git-init
 git-remote add -t mdl-topnz -f origin \
    git://git.catalyst.net.nz/moodle.git

But yes, not as easy as "cg-clone git://...#branch"

I sent a patch for 'git remote prune -c' recently that would help in the
transition between the two remotes formats.

Sam.
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