Clone only some branches

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

I have a feature request: When cloning an upstream repository (e.g.
f-spot/mainline) to add a feature, I am not interested in any branch
that might exist in mainline besides master. I am a bit annoyed by
having a dozen branches in “my” clone that I don’t care about.

It would be nice if the clone dialog
(http://gitorious.org/f-spot/mainline/clone) gave me list of branches in
the repository where I can select the one(s) that I want to clone.

Thanks,
Joachim

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[prlawrence]

On Jun 24, 4:53 pm, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a feature request: When cloning an upstream repository (e.g.
> f-spot/mainline) to add a feature, I am not interested in any branch
> that might exist in mainline besides master. I am a bit annoyed by
> having a dozen branches in “my” clone that I don’t care about.
>
> It would be nice if the clone dialog
> (http://gitorious.org/f-spot/mainline/clone) gave me list of branches in
> the repository where I can select the one(s) that I want to clone.

If I understand your request, this is simply not the way Git works.
With Git you clone repositories, not branches.

However, after you clone a repository in Gitorious, and then clone
that repository down to your local workstation, you will find that
only master has been created as a local branch. Check out the
difference between `git branch` and `git branch -a`.

Phil Lawrence

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

that is right, but still the other branches are displayed on „my“ clone
of the upstream repository on gitorious. Maybe gitorious should also
reflect this behaviour of git: Only show local branches in the web
display of my personal clones.

Greetings,