Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2006 December 12 13:04, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > Is it even sensible to want that?  It strikes me that it's possible that
> > there isn't that much space/bandwidth saving to be made.  Should I just
> > clone the repository and shut up?  :-)
>
> I've had similar idea: search for "sparse clone" keyword. But no code.

While the functionality might not be built into git in terms of clone, would 
there be a way to pull a particular commit from another repository? 

The way I would do it given nothing else is to simply extract snapshots into a 
working directory; and create a repository from scratch.  I was just 
wondering if a method existed that could reduce the size of the download.

I think the best way is going to be to use the patches published at kernel.org 
and apply them one at a time with git-apply.


Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE