From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, newren@gmail.com,
sandals@crustytoothpaste.net,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>,
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] gitfaq: shallow cloning a repository
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:09:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7dxyxlpj.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200429093811.8475-3-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> (Shourya Shukla's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:08:10 +0530")
Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> writes:
> Add issue in 'Common issue' section which covers issues with cloning
> large repositories. Use partial cloning to selectively clone the
> repository.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
> ---
> I wanted to ask why is there no mention of partial cloning in
> the 'git-clone' documentation? Is it because it is an experimental
> feature?
If the folks that have been pushing the feature haven't bothered to
document it fully, by definition, it must be a work in progress that
is not ready for the prime time ;-)
Jokes aside, the --filter=<filter-spec> option is mentioned in the
documentation and it says "...is used for the partial clone filter",
without even defining what a "partial clone filter" really is.
The topic deserves its own subsection, between the "Git URLs" and
the "Examples" sections, in git-clone(1).
> Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
> index 7d294306f9..6f32846e3d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
> @@ -243,6 +243,16 @@ I want to change the remote of my repository. How do I do that?::
> One can list the remotes of a repository using `git remote -v` command.
> The default name of a remote is 'origin'.
>
> +[[shallow-cloning]]
> +The repository I am trying to clone is too big. Is there an alternative
> +way of cloning it in lesser space?::
> + A good way to save up space when cloning a repository is
> + by using `partial clones`. A partial clone will clone the
> + full history of the repository but will skip out the entities
> + specified by the `--filter` option one uses in `git clone`.
> + Any entity which has not been cloned to save space can be cloned
> + on-demand. See linkgit:partial-clone[1].
Where does this link go?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-29 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 9:38 [PATCH v4 1/4] gitfaq: files in .gitignore are tracked Shourya Shukla
2020-04-29 9:38 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] gitfaq: changing the remote of a repository Shourya Shukla
2020-04-29 16:17 ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-29 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 9:38 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] gitfaq: shallow cloning " Shourya Shukla
2020-04-29 16:00 ` Elijah Newren
2020-05-02 5:00 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-04-29 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-05-02 6:13 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-04 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-05 12:26 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-05-06 2:49 ` dyrone teng
2020-04-29 9:38 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] gitfaq: fetching and pulling " Shourya Shukla
2020-04-29 15:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-29 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-02 6:57 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-02 19:00 ` Elijah Newren
2020-05-03 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] gitfaq: files in .gitignore are tracked Elijah Newren
2020-05-02 6:36 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-04-29 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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