--initial-branch= clone option

[Larry Weisberg]

I saw in https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs/blob/master/doc/commands/clone.md this option:

      --initial-branch=VALUE Passed to git-init (requires Git >= 2.28.0)

My git (git bash) --version: git version 2.37.1.windows.1 

Running git tfs clone which gives me clone help, does not list this option.  When I tried to use the option as 

--initial-branch=main

when cloning a TFS repository-path called Main, rather than my getting a directory called Main, the directory was called "--initial-branch=main" :-(

And when going into it an running git status, I saw default branch was still called master.

Any idea if this is supposed to be supported?  Also given a command like the following, where should that option be entered? is it in the correct location?
MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1  git tfs clone http://servertfs401:8080/tfs/defaultcollection "$/XXXX/Main" --initial-branch=main --changeset 8840 --ignore-branches-regex=XXXX.Branches --ignore-regex="(Business Utilities|External Procedures)/"

Thanks,

Larry

[Matt Burke]

Hi Larry,

Yes, --initial-branch is still in the code. I don't remember the ins-and-outs of the option parsing library we're using, but I'd recommend moving all the options in front of the positional arguments to see if that fixes it. In your example, that would look like this:

MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1  git tfs clone --initial-branch=main --changeset 8840 --ignore-branches-regex=XXXX.Branches --ignore-regex="(Business Utilities|External Procedures)/" http://servertfs401:8080/tfs/defaultcollection "$/XXXX/Main"

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Matt

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[Peter Baumann]

See also the following issue, perhaps you are experiencing the same?

Short story, the --initial-branch is not yet in a released (pre-build) version of git-tfs

https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs/issues/1440