pygit2: How to implement `git clone --single-branch`?
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Description
$ git clone -h
usage: git clone [<options>] [--] <repo> [<dir>]
...
-b, --branch <branch>
checkout <branch> instead of the remote's HEAD
...
--single-branch clone only one branch, HEAD or --branch
Hi, all. git clone has an option (i.e. --single-branch) to specify only clone one branch.
Just wonder if anyone knows how to implement this functionality with pygit2?
With --single-branch, git branch -a will has only one branch, not all remote branches.
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Might be helpful:
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/2924
https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit/issues/1669
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Start with pygit2's clone functionality and compare it with the documented git clone --single-branch behavior. Review the linked libgit2 and nodegit issues for implementation context; done means cloning only HEAD or the selected branch so git branch -a does not show all remote branches.
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- git, python
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