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=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:04:51 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <200612121235.09984.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu7HV-0004xb-Jk for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:02:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751302AbWLLNCq (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:02:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751235AbWLLNCq (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:02:46 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48197 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302AbWLLNCp (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:02:45 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gu7HK-0004Sv-PQ for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:02:38 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.25.107]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:02:38 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:02:38 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git