Re: Change set based shallow clone

> On 9/7/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Does an average user do these things? The shallow clone is there to
>> > address the casual user who gags at a five hour download to get an
>> > initial check out Mozilla when they want to make a five line change or
>> > just browse the source for a few minutes.
>> >...
>> > Maybe the answer is to build a shallow clone tool for casual use, and
>> > then if you try to run anything too complex on it git just tells you
>> > that you have to download the entire tree.
>>
>> For that kind of thing, "git-tar-tree --remote" would suffice I
>> would imagine.  The five line change can be tracked locally by
>> creating an initial commit from the tar-tree extract; such a
>> casual user will not be pushing or asking to pull but sending in
>> patches to upstream, no?
> 
> From my observation the casual user does something like this:
> 
> get a shallow clone

> decide to make some changes
> start a local branch
> commit changes on local branch
> 
> push these changes to someone else for review
> maybe pull changes on the branch back from the other person