Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Feb 8, 2008, 19:04 UTC
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- <20080208184902.GA19404@glandium.org>
Hi,
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> - There are tricks to do roughly what you want without modifying git. > For example, you can prepare several "shared" clones of your repo (git > clone -s) and leave in each only a few branches. Cloning from these will > only pull the needed data.
The problem is, of course, that the shared clones are not updated automatically, whenever the big repository is updated.
Ciao, Dscho