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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:46:30 -0800
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On Feb 10, 2008 4:08 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:
>
> > Linux git repository is not very big and can be downloaded with easy. On
> > the other end Linux history spans many more years then the repo does.
> >
> > The design choice here is two have *two repositories*, one with recent
> > stuff and one historical, with stuff older then version 2.6.12
>
> I do not think that this is an option: Jan already tried a shallow clone
> (which would amount to something like what you propose), and it was still
> too large.

I think that was still pulling all the branches, so a shallow clone of
just a couple of branches might be feasible.


Dave.