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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: remote#branch
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:49PM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> > Actually, IIRC it won't fetch any of the non 'blue' refs.
> You recall correctly, and that was a cogito misfeature. I don't think
> git should follow that part of the spec ;-)

I'm not so sure. Junio keeps unrelated branches in git.git like 'html'
and 'todo'. Is it unreasonable to say "clone git.git, but only the todo
branch" and expect it _not_ to download the entire git history?

-Peff