From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:00:59 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie: Do I need to download the entire repo to work on just 1 file? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Heya, On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 23:08, Anthony Rasmussen 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. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier