From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:14:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-Mediawiki : cloning a set of pages
Message-ID: <m3lixcdz67.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim1hOi0JdWZPR=Vw-S+9jTxqQ-=Tw@mail.gmail.com>

Claire Fousse <claire.fousse@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:

> The problem is not the feature in itself but the way you call it.
> Just so you remember, here is the command  to clone the mediawiki :
> git clone mediawiki::http://yourwiki.com
> 
> As it is now, git clone does not implement a way to define a set of pages.
[...]

Well, what you need to do is to implement API for partial _clone_ (we
have some SPI for partial checkout, but that is slightly different
beast).

Currently we have --depth=<n> to limit depth of history when cloning,
and "git remote add -t <branch>" (repeated if necessary) to consider
only a subset of branches, though unfortunately not in "git clone"
yet.

Not what you wanted to hear, I guess... :-(
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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