From: Andy Parkins Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:26:22 GMT Subject: Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history Message-ID: <200612121326.24508.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Tuesday 2006 December 12 13:04, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > 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. While the functionality might not be built into git in terms of clone, would there be a way to pull a particular commit from another repository? The way I would do it given nothing else is to simply extract snapshots into a working directory; and create a repository from scratch. I was just wondering if a method existed that could reduce the size of the download. I think the best way is going to be to use the patches published at kernel.org and apply them one at a time with git-apply. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE