From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:57:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Using git as a general backup mechanism (was Re: Using GIT to store /etc)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612122355400.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <457F31E6.8090701@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Steven Grimm wrote:

> If there were a shallowize command, you could do something like "git 
> pull; git shallowize --depth 1" to track the latest revision without 
> keeping the history locally.

Almost!

$ git pull --depth 1

Though it needs a server _and_ a client supporting shallow clones, which 
support is brewed in "next" right now.

Ciao,
Dscho