Merge branch 'feature--clone_branch'

Conflicts:
	vcsh

diff --git a/doc/vcsh.1.ronn b/doc/vcsh.1.ronn
index c91f6466e5b0706cdedeb1864aa6d3e5b9f5a517..1d432c3a0f6001753d601bd673366bff921af42c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/vcsh.1.ronn
+++ b/doc/vcsh.1.ronn
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ vcsh(1) - Version Control System for $HOME - multiple Git repositories in $HOME
 
 `vcsh` [<options>] <command>
 
-`vcsh` clone <url> [<repo>]
+`vcsh` clone [-b <branch>] <url> [<repo>]
 
 `vcsh` delete <repo>
 
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ an interactive user.
   If you need to clone a bundle of repositories, look into the
   `post-clone-retired` hook.
 
+  You can also use a single git repository with several branches. Use the `-b`
+  option to specify a branch at clone time, the default is `master`.
+
 * commit:
   Commit in all repositories
 

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index cf7d1a7178d71ce1f34c46aaf09838ae7ac7c459..af67e180a1b7af65b87da25cdafd559c5a5cdcbd 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ 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
@@ -149,16 +150,16 @@ clone() {
        hook pre-clone
        init
        git remote add origin "$GIT_REMOTE"
-       git config branch.master.remote origin
-       git config branch.master.merge  refs/heads/master
-       VCSH_CLONE_ERROR=$(git ls-remote origin master 2>&1)
-       if [ -n "$VCSH_CLONE_ERROR" ]; then
-               rm -rf "$GIT_DIR"
-               fatal "$VCSH_CLONE_ERROR" 1
+       git checkout -b "$VCSH_BRANCH" || return $?
+       git config branch."$VCSH_BRANCH".remote origin
+       git config branch."$VCSH_BRANCH".merge  refs/heads/"$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 "$VCSH_BRANCH"
        hook pre-merge
-       git ls-tree -r --name-only origin/master | (while read object; do
+       git ls-tree -r --name-only origin/"$VCSH_BRANCH" | (while read object; do
                [ -e "$object" ] &&
                        error "'$object' exists." &&
                        VCSH_CONFLICT=1
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ clone() {
        [ x"$VCSH_CONFLICT" = x'1' ]) &&
                fatal "will stop after fetching and not try to merge!
   Once this situation has been resolved, run 'vcsh $VCSH_REPO_NAME pull' to finish cloning." 17
-       git merge origin/master
+       git merge origin/"$VCSH_BRANCH"
        hook post-merge
        hook post-clone
        retire
@@ -497,11 +498,28 @@ case $VCSH_COMMAND in
 esac    
 
 if [ x"$VCSH_COMMAND" = x'clone' ]; then
+       VCSH_BRANCH=
+       if [ "$2" = -b ]; then
+               VCSH_BRANCH=$3
+               shift
+               shift
+       fi
        [ -z "$2" ] && fatal "$VCSH_COMMAND: please specify a remote" 1
        GIT_REMOTE="$2"
-       [ -n "$3" ] && VCSH_REPO_NAME=$3 || VCSH_REPO_NAME=$(basename "${GIT_REMOTE#*:}" .git)
+       [ -n "$VCSH_BRANCH" ] || if [ "$3" = -b ]; then
+               VCSH_BRANCH=$4
+               shift
+               shift
+       fi
+       if [ -n "$3" ]; then
+               VCSH_REPO_NAME=$3
+               [ -z "$VCSH_BRANCH" ] && [ "$4" = -b ] && VCSH_BRANCH=$5
+       else
+               VCSH_REPO_NAME=$(basename "${GIT_REMOTE#*:}" .git)
+       fi
        [ -z "$VCSH_REPO_NAME" ] && fatal "$VCSH_COMMAND: could not determine repository name" 1
        export VCSH_REPO_NAME
+       [ -n "$VCSH_BRANCH" ] || VCSH_BRANCH=master
        GIT_DIR=$VCSH_REPO_D/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git; export GIT_DIR
 elif [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'version' ]; then
        echo "$SELF $VERSION"