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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-01 12:58:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-10-01 12:58:10 -0700 |
| commit | 92f6e98c69670689c868452a91d9ed1c2c39eac2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e3165386742cf1a4ad998132ee5475997f9ff02 /Documentation | |
| parent | 261b5119c7a7cb778dd812cfb006b511c5bc4065 (diff) | |
| parent | 31b808a03290a4f87c571cc1c61f26d8a03c7025 (diff) | |
| download | git-92f6e98c69670689c868452a91d9ed1c2c39eac2.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'rt/maint-clone-single'
Running "git fetch" in a repository made with "git clone --single"
slurps all the branches, defeating the point of "--single".
* rt/maint-clone-single:
clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index c1ddd4c2cc..6d98ef3d2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ currently active branch. After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the -current master branch, if any. +current master branch, if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch" +is given; see below). This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and @@ -152,9 +153,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. -b <name>:: Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed to by the cloned repository's HEAD, point to `<name>` branch - instead. `--branch` can also take tags and treat them like - detached HEAD. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch - that will be checked out. + instead. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch that will + be checked out. + `--branch` can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit + in the resulting repository. --upload-pack <upload-pack>:: -u <upload-pack>:: @@ -193,6 +195,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. + Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the + remote tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the + initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any + branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote tracking + branch is created. --recursive:: --recurse-submodules:: |