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Re: Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)?

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TTTimur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 17:01 UTC
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Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
>>> Shallow clone is a development feature still being working on in
>>> Junio's 'pu' branch of git.git.  It has a few issues still to be
>>> worked out so it hasn't been made part of one of the more stable
>>> branches yet (like 'next', 'master', or 'maint').
>> Well, until it's available on an official git release, it doesn't help me.
> 
> One of the reasons its hanging out in 'pu' still is that there is
> a lack of people who are interested in the feature, and thus not
> enough people are testing it.  Perhaps you might be able to lend
> a hand in that regard?

Sure, I can do that! Can you give me some pointers? I've never done development on git itself, so I don't know Junio or his pu (sorry, I couldn't resist :-)).

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Timur Tabi
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  1. Timur TabiNov 15, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceNov 15, 2006
  3. Timur TabiNov 15, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceNov 15, 2006
  5. Thomas KolejkaNov 17, 2006
  6. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  8. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  10. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  12. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
  13. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
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  15. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  16. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
  17. Timur TabiNov 21, 2006
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