From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:08:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802101207330.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550802092323u3ec3c9c8uf6e92399395efd27@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:

> Linux git repository is not very big and can be downloaded with easy. On 
> the other end Linux history spans many more years then the repo does.
> 
> The design choice here is two have *two repositories*, one with recent 
> stuff and one historical, with stuff older then version 2.6.12

I do not think that this is an option: Jan already tried a shallow clone 
(which would amount to something like what you propose), and it was still 
too large.

Ciao,
Dscho