From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:14:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone
Message-ID: <7vlkovtjd1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609071341u7e430214j71ddcbefa26810ca@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> Does an average user do these things? The shallow clone is there to
> address the casual user who gags at a five hour download to get an
> initial check out Mozilla when they want to make a five line change or
> just browse the source for a few minutes.
>...
> Maybe the answer is to build a shallow clone tool for casual use, and
> then if you try to run anything too complex on it git just tells you
> that you have to download the entire tree.

For that kind of thing, "git-tar-tree --remote" would suffice I
would imagine.  The five line change can be tracked locally by
creating an initial commit from the tar-tree extract; such a
casual user will not be pushing or asking to pull but sending in
patches to upstream, no?