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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:59 +0100
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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 th=
is? =A0I 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.

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier