Re: [QUESTION] about .git/info/grafts file

[Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

2006/1/19, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
>  - a full clone takes a long time. Git _could_ fairly easily have an
>    extension to add a date specifier to clone too:
>
>         git clone --since=1.month.ago <source> <dst>
>
>    and just leave any older stuff (you could always fetch it later), but
>    we've just never done it. Maybe we should. It _should_ be pretty simple
>    to do from a conceptual standpoint.
>

that would be great ! something like:

        git clone --since=v2.6.15 <src> <dst>

would be very useful for me. How would it work ? Does it automatically
set up a graft file for me ?

> but "everyday" operations shouldn't slow down from having a long history.

but it's really a pain to run for example git-repack or git-prune commands.

Thanks
--
               Franck