From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git clone add option to track all remote branches
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:29:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lkuvtve.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180402015035.mzgye6apwn3igch5@HP>
On Mon, Apr 02 2018, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> I am writing to ask that whether or not you think will be appropriate to add
> an option to "git clone" so that whenever a repo is cloned, branches are
> created automatically to track corresponding remote branches. (or is there any
> equivelant option?)
>
> You can obviously do this by a bash command like this
>
> git branch -r | grep -v '\->' | while read remote; do git branch --track "${remote#origin/}" "$remote"; done
Aside from this specific suggestion, we should be careful when adding
more special snowflakes to git-clone that aren't available through
git-fetch or via after the fact config, such as git clone
--single-branch which has no fetch equivalent (i.e. in finding out what
the remote HEAD is).
Actually now that I mention that it occurs to me that what you want
could just be a special case of generalizing our existing
--single-branch feature. I.e. we would clone repos as:
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com:git/git.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
branch = $symref(HEAD):refs/remotes/origin/HEAD:TRACK
Or some other such syntax to create a refs/heads/master from the remote
HEAD symref if it doesn't exist (note the lack of a +), then for your
feature:
branch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*:TRACK
But you could also do:
branch = +refs/heads/origin/*:refs/remotes/origin/*:TRACK
Or whatever. I don't know what syntax would be sensible, but something
like this is a missing feature of our existing --single-branch feature,
and because of that you can only get its semantics by re-cloning.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-02 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-02 1:50 [RFC] git clone add option to track all remote branches Yubin Ruan
2018-04-02 2:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-02 3:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-02 3:45 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-04-02 9:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
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