From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Anthony Rasmussen <evoluenta@hotmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0903221600j22cf028fl903aef8076e53777@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU121-W15DB0E5CEBC1DA697E5ED8B4950@phx.gbl>
Heya,
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 23:08, Anthony Rasmussen <evoluenta@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Do I have to download the entire rep onto my laptop in order to do this? I have read and read, but I am quite confused :)
Yes, you do, in general though, git repositories are quite compact
compared to, say, a svn checkouts. It is not unheard of that the full
git clone is smaller than the same code as svn checkout.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-22 23:02 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 [this message]
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
2009-03-22 23:31 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-03-22 23:36 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
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