From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: just fetching HEAD of repository Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 12:56:44 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <566574ef0705210201wc5c0adbmaa22d197b16bf72d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 25 12:52:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrXOm-000385-Gs for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 12:51:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751009AbXEYKvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 06:51:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751491AbXEYKvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 06:51:52 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34116 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009AbXEYKvv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 06:51:51 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HrXOf-0002Al-E9 for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 12:51:49 +0200 Received: from host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl ([89.229.25.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 12:51:49 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 12:51:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Stian Haklev wrote: > After checking all the docs, I am still wondering if there is a way to > get only the last commit from a given git repository. Sometimes I > really just want the latest code so I can compile it - and let's say > they are not running gitweb, or it is not convenient to go to gitweb > and ask for a tar package to be made? This is especially relevant in > countries with slow internet connection - here in Indonesia it takes > me an hour to clone the git repository for example, never mind let's > say the Linux kernel. Depending on what you want, try either: $ git clone --depth=1 or $ git archive --remote= HEAD (if the remote side supports it) -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git