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Git repository clonning

From
MPMartin Přecechtěl <precechtel@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2012, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID
<4F3E384A.3040006@gmail.com>

To Whom It May Concern, I have a problem and I would like to ask you for help. I need to somehow access the git repositry over network and read files from it. In the concrete, only thing I need is to read some files from repository, where I have files needed for installation of computers. So on computer where installation takes place, I need to read from this repository some files needed for installation process. I tried command git clone <my_repository> but this command download the whole repository which size is now almost 8GB files + 4GB .git folder. This process is very slow. So I want to ask you if there is a way how to access my repository (read some files from it) but to significantly improve speed. Is there for example something what will somehow map the repository to folder and then dowload only thouse files which are accessed?

I would appreciate any help.

Thank you for your time, Yours faithfully, Martin Precechtel

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