From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Anthony Rasmussen <evoluenta@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:31:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090322233120.GC12974@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0903221610p3b11f09ctc6a9f4d38b1bda3e@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:10:48AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>
> Heya,
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 00:10, Nicolas Sebrecht
> <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> wrote:
> > No, you don't. Why not use the '--depth <depth>' option of 'git clone' ?
>
> That depends on if he wants to push back to the original repo or not, right?
It depends of what the OP means by "entire repository". You can't
"cherry-pick" one single file without download the entire tree of the
working directory.
You can push with a truncated history. What you can't do is checkout
from the history you don't have in your local repository.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-22 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-22 22:08 Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file? Anthony Rasmussen
2009-03-22 23:00 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-22 23:06 ` Geoffrey Lee
2009-03-22 23:10 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-03-22 23:10 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-22 23:16 ` Geoffrey Lee
2009-03-22 23:31 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2009-03-22 23:36 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
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