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Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file?

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2009, 23:00 UTC
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Heya,
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 23:08, Anthony Rasmussen <evoluenta@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Do I have to download the entire rep onto my laptop in order to do this?  I have read and read, but I am quite confused :)

Yes, you do, in general though, git repositories are quite compact compared to, say, a svn checkouts. It is not unheard of that the full git clone is smaller than the same code as svn checkout.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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