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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Brandon Williams" <bmwill@google.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: add a --no-tags option to clone without tags
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:35:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170425223533.GL28740@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170418191553.15464-1-avarab@gmail.com>

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Add a --no-tags option to "git clone" to clone without tags. Currently
> there's no easy way to clone a repository and end up with just a
> "master" branch via --single-branch, or track all branches and no
> tags. Now --no-tags can be added to "git clone" with or without
> --single-branch to clone a repository without tags.

Could --single-branch be made to imply --no-tags, like --depth implies
--single-branch?  After all, all I wanted is that one branch, not some
tags.

Callers who really want the tags could still pass --tags to request
that.

Just thinking out loud,
Jonathan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-14 21:28 Is there a way to get 'git fetch --no-tags' semantics with 'git clone'? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-18 19:15 ` [PATCH] clone: add a --no-tags option to clone without tags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-18 21:06   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-18 23:30   ` Brandon Williams
2017-04-19  1:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-19  5:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-19 14:38     ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-25 22:45       ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-04-26  1:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-26  8:56         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-25 22:35   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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