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clone: allow --branch to take a tag
authorNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:46:15 +0000 (16:46 +0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:26:26 +0000 (16:26 -0800)
commit5a7d5b683f869d3e3884a89775241afa515da9e7
treecf3930dd84c09d9bacdda4c993aab526e7bd493etree | snapshot
parent920b691fe4da8115f9b79901411c0cc5fff17efecommit | diff
clone: allow --branch to take a tag

Because a tag ref cannot be put to HEAD, HEAD will become detached.
This is consistent with "git checkout <tag>".

This is mostly useful in shallow clone, where it allows you to clone a
tag in addtion to branches.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-clone.txt diff | blob | history
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