From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:24:21 GMT Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository. Message-ID: <7vveys8n8q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Franck writes: > I'm trying to clone a small part of a big repository. What Linus has already said... This is the second time this week the issue came up, so maybe "large bundled repository, whose users typically are interested in only one branch" may not be so uncommon as I first expected. An optional form of 'git-clone' that clones only from a limited subset of branches might be useful. The underlying network transfer program, 'git-clone-pack', can be told to clone only specified branches. If somebody is interested, updating the 'git-clone' wrapper to use it should not be too hard -- obviously this needs to be done for other transports as well, though.