From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:35:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Thinning a repository
Message-ID: <m5f2up$554$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141130123400.GG31751@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On 11/30/2014 01:34 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
>> Is there a quick way to reproduce the effect of a shallow clone on a
>> local repository that doesn't involve filter-branch and/or re-clone?
> 
> I'm curious, why is it a bad thing to do a re-clone? If you clone your
> local repo it would be really fast.

I see no reason to involve the workspace.
I would also want to keep the current remote/origin as it is.

I expect a 'thin' command to be faster by not touching the workspace at all.