From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
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Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ]
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:10:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45520872.3090506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611072009220.2601@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> [pu]
>>
>> Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
>> of 'master' although I haven't done so yet. As he said
>> himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
>> such a feature to raise hands.
>
> I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand
> it to be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work
> normally from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes
> reporting 'that's part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff)
> consider my hand raised.
>
> there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a
> project as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the full
> history (even with the good compression that a git pack provides, it's
> still a significant amount of disk space and download time for large
> projects)
>
I am trying to test this feature. Is there a documentation .git/shallow some where. Atleast what those entries
mean ? I know in the mail johannes mentioned only core git will touch this file. But it should be ok to be
descriptive like other files. (FETCH_HEAD)
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 3:21 What's in git.git Junio C Hamano
2006-11-08 4:13 ` David Lang
2006-11-08 16:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2006-11-08 17:59 ` Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ] Aneesh Kumar K.V
2006-11-09 4:04 ` Shallow clone Junio C Hamano
2006-11-09 4:17 ` Aneesh Kumar
2006-11-11 13:57 ` Alexandre Julliard
2006-11-12 8:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-12 17:59 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-11-12 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-13 5:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-12 13:12 ` Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ] Petr Baudis
2006-11-12 20:04 ` Shallow clone Junio C Hamano
2006-11-09 2:28 ` What's in git.git Horst H. von Brand
2006-11-09 2:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-09 3:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-09 3:45 ` Dave Dillow
2006-11-12 22:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-08 7:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-08 7:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-08 7:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-08 8:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-08 14:51 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-09 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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