From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:28:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612121527070.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200612121326.24508.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

> The way I would do it given nothing else is to simply extract snapshots 
> into a working directory; and create a repository from scratch.  I was 
> just wondering if a method existed that could reduce the size of the 
> download.

You are not by any chance talking about the --remote option to 
git-archive?

If you want to reduce the number of objects to be downloaded, by telling 
the other side what you have, you literally end up with something like 
shallow clone: the other side _has_ to support it.

Ciao,
Dscho