[Users] Checking out branches with GetComponents

[Ian Hinder]

Hi,

Is it currently possible to specify which branch to check out with  
GetComponents?  For the release, we are planning on making a new  
branch in each repository which will be the "release branch", called  
ET_2010_06.  For each type of repository (SVN, CVS, git) the  
einsteintoolkit.th thorn list will be updated to check out this  
branch.  Is this possible?

It seems that git clone has a "-b" option to specify which branch to  
check out after the repository is cloned, but this doesn't seem to  
exist in anything but the latest versions of git (for example, it  
exists in 1.7.1 but not in 1.6.1).  So a separate "git checkout"  
command will have to be run by GetComponents.

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Ian Hinder
ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de