git clone doesn't support a revision specifier, but hg clone definitely
does (hg clone -r; it's in the manpage).

I haven't worked on this project in eons, but I know at least that much. :D

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:24 PM Amenel Voglozin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As far as I know, you cannot "select" the part of a DVCS repository that
> you want to clone. It's either the entire repository or nothing; if I'm not
> mistaken, this is also the case with Git, but I barely know Git and
> actually, I barely know Mercurial because each of these is capable of so
> much more than my basic usage of them. You can, to a limited extent, select
> in the **Push** window which changesets you are sharing.
>
> The Synchronize option you mentioned is meant (I'll have to double check
> this) for when you already have a copy of a repo and both have diverged:
> you may then elect to only synchronize one branch, meaning that you are
> only interested in one branch.
>
> There is no official documentation for **all** the options and settings,
> and such a thing is a gaping hole in the project to which I have alluded in
> the past. Therefore I had started to collect the meanings while doing the
> maintenance but it is definitely not ripe for publishing nor complete. Far
> from it, actually.
>
> About "How can we get it to only pull one branch.", please open a entry on
> the issue tracker and paste the contents of your MercurialEclipse console
> there.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> 2017-12-05 19:11 GMT+01:00 Peter Kronenberg <[email protected]>:
>
>>
>>
>> We created a clone of just a single branch in our repo by specifying the
>> branch name on the clone screen:
>>
>> [image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/j1OKE.png]
>>
>>
>>
>> But when we do a pull, it pulls everything from including other branches.
>> We tried setting this option in Preferences:
>>
>> [image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DXtuF.png]
>>
>> but it doesn't seem to have any effect, or at least no affect that we can
>> see.
>>
>>
>> How can we get it to only pull one branch.
>>
>>
>> Is there any documentation for all the various options and settings?
>>
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