From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:55:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaNZsBP19gLvsrDx6RLyQ7QhmbKAgSDcXg71Uwcvf9tNQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <70A3994196D94205B75660D9DEFF0A12@PhilipOakley>

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

> A possible idea is to add a date based variant of shallow clone :
>
>  'git clone --date <when> ...'
>
> in the same vein as the existing depth (shallow) clone.

As food for thought:
Maybe broaden this further up to the git-ish way of describing refs, so

    git clone --since 2.weeks.ago <url>
    git clone --since v2.10 <url>
    git clone --since c0ffee^^ <url>

would all equally work?

I am not sure if that is feasible though, but it would come in handy. (E.g.
you are an end user and want to bisect down a bug which you notice in the
new version X but not in old version Y, so you start on getting the sources,
compiling, bisecting)