Re: lily-git.tcl and git clone

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> The updated CG instructions for setting up git manually specify to
> use clone:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/setting-up
> but the latest patch for lily-git.tcl still appears to use the old
> git remote add... stuff to only get specific branches?

IIRC, that is the default of git clone.

> If I understand git correctly, which I'm sure that I don't,
> wouldn't this make getting other branches (notably origin/staging,
> but also dev/whatever as well) much harder?
>
> Is there a compelling reason not to use git clone for lily-git.tcl
> as well?

I don't think it would help.

-- 
David Kastrup