Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Andy Parkins wrote:

> For interests sake I'd like to track the kernel.org linux repository.  
> However, I'm not that bothered about tracking the history - it's more that I 
> like to have the latest kernel release lying around.
> 
> Is there a way that I could just pull individual commits from a git 
> repository?  In particular - could I make a repository (obviously not a 
> clone, because it wouldn't have all the history) that contained only the 
> tagged commits from an upstream repository?

As of beta (in 'next') you can do 'shallow clone'm i.e. clone/fetch
only N commits depth history.
 
> Is it even sensible to want that?  It strikes me that it's possible that there 
> isn't that much space/bandwidth saving to be made.  Should I just clone the 
> repository and shut up?  :-)

I've had similar idea: search for "sparse clone" keyword. But no code.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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