From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file? Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:10:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20090322231002.GA12974@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 23 00:12:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LlWqL-0004TW-Uw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:12:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756497AbZCVXLJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:11:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756268AbZCVXLH (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:11:07 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:57957 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755800AbZCVXLG (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:11:06 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1579997fxm.37 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4VZ1SjbbRnAV8KIRSDy0/KmHY2lS8lhWQ5gLR1onf00=; b=QBViUahLTxHpMz6ScB9G8YXIW8iJyJTlHQHAZZMJ9z8UkuXMwms+UrDbaih4elGulE A2HTogL9gj/P1aVtNoIsevof+s5dSF13qReW6fKdfef8OeuJUjZLoHeoFX9IYnv21BJY X4FYXHftxfxL4N5xgCZK/SV59u4eoXAFkrwjE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FbWsKbIpU7AkiyUYqvf7Il+4NaFyWXcsfD4veQKqdSO6wN150ySmW4SThlVK2OzKOJ Z4THudTvT+/E9eIpWQrbxmEUTSm9Ql5UyKNi3PVAKWelFmGlk5BVkWgyBez+LjdI7bd6 iRXD1OdHNLBB/9CPG3bgdFj6rmP/4whx2MdTY= In-Reply-To: <20090322231002.GA12974@vidovic> Received: by 10.103.240.5 with SMTP id s5mr2764399mur.133.1237763463348; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 00:10, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > No, you don't. Why not use the '--depth ' option of 'git clone' ? That depends on if he wants to push back to the original repo or not, right? -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier