From: Geoffrey Lee Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:16:43 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file? Message-ID: <83d7aaa40903221616x706fe579r9c8d3d792d2341e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Sverre Rabbelier 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