From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:24:03 GMT
Subject: Re: question about git and remote repositories
Message-ID: <32541b130804081324q7555aff5ia123512db014e24f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47FBC2C9.6060702@tikalk.com>

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Ittay Dror <ittayd@tikalk.com> wrote:
> For example, as far as
> I understand, if all I want is to get the latest commit in HEAD, branch from
> it and start working, then all git really needs to have is all objects
> referenced from that commit (commit, trees, blobs) and that's it, right? (as
> long as I don't expect to see full log of past operations)

It can be quite addictive to have the entire revision history of the
entire project sitting locally on your disk.  Once you've tried it,
it's hard to go back. :)

But if you still want only the last few revisions, try using the
--depth option to git-clone.

Have fun,

Avery