Re: Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ]
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> David Lang wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> [pu]
>>>
>>> Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
>>> of 'master' although I haven't done so yet. As he said
>>> himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
>>> such a feature to raise hands.
>>
>> I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I
>> understand it to be (the ability to get a partial repository from
>> upstream and work normally from there with the result of data-mineing
>> tools sometimes reporting 'that's part of the truncated history' if
>> they hit the cutoff) consider my hand raised.
>>
>> there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a
>> project as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the
>> full history (even with the good compression that a git pack provides,
>> it's still a significant amount of disk space and download time for
>> large projects)
>>
>
> I am trying to test this feature. Is there a documentation .git/shallow
> some where. Atleast what those entries
> mean ? I know in the mail johannes mentioned only core git will touch
> this file. But it should be ok to be descriptive like other files.
> (FETCH_HEAD)
diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
index 275d18b..03a6f77 100644
--- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
@@ -141,3 +141,9 @@ logs/refs/heads/`name`::
logs/refs/tags/`name`::
Records all changes made to the tag named `name`.
+
+shallow::
+ Records the sha1 of the commits which is marked to have no
+ parents to represent a shallow repository.The commit object
+ will have the parent information present. It carry one
+ record per line.
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>