From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoffrey Lee 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 Message-ID: <83d7aaa40903221616x706fe579r9c8d3d792d2341e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090322231002.GA12974@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht , git@vger.kernel.org To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 23 00:18:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LlWw6-0005yS-44 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:18:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756546AbZCVXQr (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:16:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756515AbZCVXQq (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:16:46 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:60340 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753635AbZCVXQp (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:16:45 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so2515753wff.4 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:16:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sY7MLG8k/M9Gw0R9T5IyQYwejpi6Hi+WEUS3M4kyvwg=; b=p0zyS9tkeZTxtRNOtdr4j7QfxBk0Xcq4lunYejCsXraoO2qJD0DV0dI9zSIzR2FUHL ObmVsEOnV9LWjnV8MIGSkue3k/cNaj9IPIphblUTDIqyKcFTRHdke2t1oedan3Edw130 p8GOmaZUqa9L9McFzkewLZk9Qt3PADdp+pJsA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=p5BFvKgtmirKBJHs5y4f3dVmi5vKZTi2YzBIVFdA5pF0D0xmyQGHZd7vRFerAqCzYk fOp1GEn1tFzhFEG1+IbJhsYBjbxy7QJ5AqJaUYFGm9wG8+QYpD0fbi+ltb2u98BdeZCs qx4dcemeu/trcyg2Bv+FgHdGqLr7fGcbmt/08= Received: by 10.142.179.2 with SMTP id b2mr2566964wff.46.1237763803670; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:16:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Sverre Rabbelier 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