From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:31:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file?
Message-ID: <20090322233120.GC12974@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0903221610p3b11f09ctc6a9f4d38b1bda3e@mail.gmail.com>


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:10:48AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> 
> Heya,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 00:10, Nicolas Sebrecht
> <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> wrote:
> > No, you don't. Why not use the '--depth <depth>' option of 'git clone' ?
> 
> That depends on if he wants to push back to the original repo or not, right?

It depends of what the OP means by "entire repository". You can't
"cherry-pick" one single file without download the entire tree of the
working directory.

You can push with a truncated history. What you can't do is checkout
from the history you don't have in your local repository.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht