On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Ori Livneh wrote:
Platonides figured it out. Incredibly enough, in the half-sub-sub-version delta from
1.7.9.5 to 1.7.10, the behavior of git-clone was fixed so that it only fetches a single
branch rather than all.
The workaround for git <1.7.10 is:
mkdir core; cd core
git init
git fetch --depth=1
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
master:refs/remotes/origin/master
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Ori Livneh