Can "git clone" checkout a specified branch now?

Can "git clone" checkout a specified branch now?

Posted Aug 6, 2008 15:05 UTC (Wed) by newren (subscriber, #5160)
In reply to: Can "git clone" checkout a specified branch now? by bbbush
Parent article: Git Magic

I've wanted that as well, but no, I haven't seen it in git. I've used the commands you gave sometimes, though I also once put a script together with the following commands:

git clone --no-checkout REPOSITORY
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/BRANCH
git read-tree -m -u -v HEAD HEAD

Typically users aren't supposed to be exposed to symbolic-ref or read-tree; they're low-level "plumbing" commands. But it can be useful in a script if you have a reason for wrapping git as part of some other build tool or something.

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