From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Clone a repository with only the objects needed for a single tag Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:49:50 +0100 Message-ID: <43687DAE.2010604@op5.se> References: <43681E47.4010203@ust.hk> <7vy847y1m2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43687869.7060104@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 09:51:49 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXEJf-0000gc-D4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:49:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932664AbVKBItw (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 03:49:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932663AbVKBItw (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 03:49:52 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:23424 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932662AbVKBItv (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 03:49:51 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34E46BD00 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:49:50 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43687869.7060104@ust.hk> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ben Lau wrote: > Hi Junio, > > It works! Thanks a lot. > > However, it has a problem when involves the gitk/git-log. Both those programs use the history, which you don't have. With a shallow repository like this some commands just won't work. git-*log and gitk are among those. > > git-log/gitk do not complains afterward, but it also make gitk shows > nothing during run. Any solution? > * Get a second machine with more disk-space and run the history tools there. If you use it as mothership and push your commits to it you'll be able to track your changes from the laptop as well. * Get a larger disk. They're not terribly expensive now adays. * Check out one tag (i.e. release) more than you need. Then you'll get history back to that tag. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231