From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:04:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802081903510.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <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