vcsh: `vcsh clone [-b <branch>] <remote> [<repo>]`

[code/vcsh.git] / vcsh

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index 69b6c4cea6187f9d1bca777c507d060bf4352b74..76502f530f1817d1b64ebd0a73d3f1253fc07905 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ help() {
    -v                   Enable verbose mode
 
    commands:
-   clone <remote> \\
+   clone [-b <branch>] \\
+         <remote> \\
          [<repo>]       Clone from an existing repository
    commit               Commit in all repositories
    delete <repo>        Delete an existing repository
@@ -148,11 +149,12 @@ clone() {
        git remote add origin "$GIT_REMOTE"
        git config branch."$VCSH_BRANCH".remote origin
        git config branch."$VCSH_BRANCH".merge  refs/heads/"$VCSH_BRANCH"
+       git checkout -b $VCSH_BRANCH
        if [ $(git ls-remote origin "$VCSH_BRANCH" 2> /dev/null | wc -l ) -lt 1 ]; then
                info "remote is empty, not merging anything"
                exit
        fi
-       git fetch
+       git fetch origin "$VCSH_BRANCH"
        hook pre-merge
        git ls-tree -r --name-only origin/master | (while read object; do
                [ -e "$object" ] &&
@@ -430,6 +432,13 @@ case $VCSH_COMMAND in
 esac    
 
 if [ x"$VCSH_COMMAND" = x'clone' ]; then
+       if [ "$2" = -b ]; then
+               VCSH_BRANCH="$3"
+               shift
+               shift
+       else
+               VCSH_BRANCH=master
+       fi
        [ -z "$2" ] && fatal "$VCSH_COMMAND: please specify a remote" 1
        GIT_REMOTE="$2"
        [ -n "$3" ] && VCSH_REPO_NAME=$3 || VCSH_REPO_NAME=$(basename "${GIT_REMOTE#*:}" .git)