From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ittay Dror Subject: question about git and remote repositories Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:08:57 +0300 Message-ID: <47FBC2C9.6060702@tikalk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 08 21:16:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjJJ4-0008GD-29 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:16:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752648AbYDHTPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:15:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752295AbYDHTPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:15:48 -0400 Received: from smtp100.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.52.46]:22200 "HELO smtp100.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751968AbYDHTPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:15:48 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 397 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:15:47 EDT Received: (qmail 32400 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2008 19:09:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.9?) (ittayd@tikalk.com@84.108.89.36 with plain) by smtp100.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2008 19:09:06 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: yMR2IG4VM1nxte5ZOnd9LwUfTTUr4iO_nDafxUg4ZLbhzeJ1vHkvKi5MJTkqqpcO5C0LRC0RuY8YAgRJ_TDDi0R4F.x91VmGlnBqX5oVPiFJB.q3OEY- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, If I want to start working on a project that uses git (and I want to use git also), I first need to clone the project's repo. That is very slow (using the git:// protocol). Are there alternatives? For example, as far as I understand, if all I want is to get the latest commit in HEAD, branch from it and start working, then all git really needs to have is all objects referenced from that commit (commit, trees, blobs) and that's it, right? (as long as I don't expect to see full log of past operations) Thanks, Ittay -- Ittay Dror Tikal Tikal Project