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authorPete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>2011-12-25 02:07:34 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-12-27 18:19:30 (GMT)
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git-p4: document and test clone --branch
Clone with --branch will not checkout HEAD, unless the branch happens to be called the default refs/remotes/p4/master. The --branch option is most useful with sync; give an example of that. Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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--branch <branch>::
Import changes into given branch. If the branch starts with
'refs/', it will be used as is, otherwise the path 'refs/heads/'
- will be prepended. The default branch is 'master'.
+ will be prepended. The default branch is 'master'. If used
+ with an initial clone, no HEAD will be checked out.
++
+This example imports a new remote "p4/proj2" into an existing
+git repository:
+----
+ $ git init
+ $ git p4 sync --branch=refs/remotes/p4/proj2 //depot/proj2
+----
--detect-branches::
Use the branch detection algorithm to find new paths in p4. It is