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=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)? Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:52:22 -0600 Organization: Freescale Message-ID: <45632EC6.5030902@freescale.com> References: <455B90AD.3060707@freescale.com> <20061117103611.183640@gmx.net> <45632957.5070205@freescale.com> <20061121163206.GA22006@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Kolejka , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061101 SeaMonkey/1.1b In-Reply-To: <20061121163206.GA22006@spearce.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmYrV-0004U1-Hp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:52:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031027AbWKUQwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:52:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030745AbWKUQwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:52:35 -0500 Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net ([192.88.165.102]:51416 "EHLO de01egw01.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031027AbWKUQwe (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:52:34 -0500 Received: from de01smr01.freescale.net (de01smr01.freescale.net [10.208.0.31]) by de01egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw01) with ESMTP id kALIE8B1027503; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:14:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.19.119] (ld0169-tx32.am.freescale.net [10.82.19.119]) by de01smr01.freescale.net (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id kALGqNXt008884; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:52:23 -0600 (CST) To: Shawn Pearce Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Shawn Pearce wrote: > Twice the size of a normal tarball isn't too bad, considering that > you have the _complete_ history in the pack and yet the normal > tarball has no history at all. That is true. However, for the particular project I'm working on, double the size is not really acceptable. My goal is to provide a source tree that is "git enabled", so that user can use git command to fetch, apply, and create patches. Currently, we're just handing out tarballs, so we want to move people to the 21st century. > Shallow clone is a development feature still being working on in > Junio's 'pu' branch of git.git. It has a few issues still to be > worked out so it hasn't been made part of one of the more stable > branches yet (like 'next', 'master', or 'maint'). Well, until it's available on an official git release, it doesn't help me. -- Timur Tabi