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Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file?

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Geoffrey Lee <geoffreyj.lee@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2009, 23:16 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> That depends on if he wants to push back to the original repo or not, right?

Correct. You cannot push, fetch, or clone a shallow repo. And for Git development, it's all about sending patches, so you don't need past revisions.

-Geoffrey Lee
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