From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Lau Subject: Clone a repository with only the objects needed for a single tag Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:02:47 +0800 Message-ID: <43681E47.4010203@ust.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 02 03:03:34 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EX7y5-0001VH-J9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 03:03:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932177AbVKBCCx (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:02:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932182AbVKBCCx (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:02:53 -0500 Received: from mx4.ust.hk ([143.89.13.26]:59400 "EHLO mx4.ust.hk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932177AbVKBCCw (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:02:52 -0500 Received: from [143.89.135.159] (atz113.rd.ust.hk [143.89.135.159]) by mx4.ust.hk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jA222hPl011734 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:02:44 +0800 (HKT) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Is there any method to clone/copy a repository with only the objects needed for a single tag in order to save disk space? For example, if I want to start a new project based on a specific version of kernel like v2.6.14. I would run `git-clone` and then checkout a new branch based on the tag. However, one of the development host is a notebook computer which has only 2GB space leave. Therefore I hope the space occupied by the respository could be mininiumized while it keeps to be able to fetch/update from my master repository. Thanks for any advise.