From: Geoffrey Lee <geoffreyj.lee@gmail.com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:16:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d7aaa40903221616x706fe579r9c8d3d792d2341e0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0903221610p3b11f09ctc6a9f4d38b1bda3e@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> That depends on if he wants to push back to the original repo or not, right?
Correct. You cannot push, fetch, or clone a shallow repo. And for Git
development, it's all about sending patches, so you don't need past
revisions.
-Geoffrey Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-22 23:18 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 [this message]
2009-03-22 23:31 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-03-22 23:36 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
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