From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:19:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Is it possible to git clone --filter= without any objects?
Message-ID: <CAGf8dgKLz14ijnXwV0Y=M48Rij-scA19E_uXk3pBc0T02oE_0Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYK7ish4_DaZN2bCfZz7LNAjxogQH1k6T=hFcxxkXzJQw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> You might be pleased to hear about a series floating on the mailing list,
> that started at
> https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1533854545.git.matvore@google.com/
> and promised to filter trees away, and its latest version can be found at
> https://public-inbox.org/git/cover.1536081438.git.matvore@google.com/

I mentioned this in an email to the original poster in which I forgot
to also CC the mailing list:

By "without any objects" in your email subject, do you mean "without
blob and tree objects"? If yes, there is some code in the
md/filter-trees branch that can do that with a "--filter=tree:0"
option. As far as I know, it is not yet in any released version of
Git, but hopefully will be in the next one (the "What's Cooking" [1]
email mentions that it will be merged to the "next" branch, which is
one of the steps before it is released).

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqmusw6gbo.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/