From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:26:22 +0000 Message-ID: <200612121326.24508.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200612121235.09984.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=NeNm/iWWIOYx+WpaAqdbUgR77qYvyum3vUayZaZQE8WMo7Zm+WYb/OGUeZjbIjJlrFgS15ZRLGrs6L1wnq1q4eZt76uiZaMYW8+89DzP9IH/i+YrHZhTmDnTiQOZWqacjm8auJoqJQkGVoVFst6Mwrt3Jft/Zi9VfLj4wQvWcv8= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu7em-0008Gx-00 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:26:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751333AbWLLN0b (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:26:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbWLLN0b (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:26:31 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:18902 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbWLLN0a (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:26:30 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1662069uga for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.21.11 with SMTP id y11mr11696298ugi.1165929989013; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k1sm8733561ugf.2006.12.12.05.26.28; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:26:28 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE