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Git repository clonning

Subject: Git repository clonning

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Martin Přecechtěl· Feb 17, 2012, 11:21 UTC · lore

To Whom It May Concern, I have a problem and I would like to ask you for help. I need to somehow access the git repositry over network and read files from it. In the concrete, only thing I need is to read some files from repository, where I have files needed for installation of computers. So on computer where installation takes place, I need to read from this repository some files needed for installation process. I tried command git clone <my_repository> but this command download the whole repository which size is now almost 8GB files + 4GB .git folder. This process is very slow. So I want to ask you if there is a way how to access my repository (read some files from it) but to significantly improve speed. Is there for example something what will somehow map the repository to folder and then dowload only thouse files which are accessed?

I would appreciate any help.

Thank you for your time, Yours faithfully, Martin Precechtel

Jakub Narebski· Feb 17, 2012, 12:59 UTC · re: Martin Přecechtěl · lore

Re: Git repository clonning

Martin Přecechtěl <precechtel@gmail.com> writes:
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> I have a problem and I would like to ask you for help. I need to
> somehow access the git repository over network and read files from
> it. In the concrete, only thing I need is to read some files from
> repository, where I have files needed for installation of
> computers. So on  computer where installation takes place, I need to
> read from this repository some files needed for installation
> process.

Where this repository is? Is it on computer you control? If yes, why not use some networking filesystem or just rsync checked out files?

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> I tried command git clone <my_repository> but this command
> download the whole repository which size is now almost 8GB files + 4GB
> .git folder. This process is very slow. So I want to ask you if there
> is a way how to access my repository (read some files from it) but to
> significantly improve speed. Is there for example something what will
> somehow map the repository to folder and then dowload only thouse
> files which are accessed?

You can try to use shallow clone, which would download only tip of history... but all the files:

  $ git clone --depth=0 <URL>

If remote repository is configured correctly, and all the files are inside one directory, you can try to use remote archive:

  $ git archive --remote=<URL> --prefix=<dir>/ --output=<dir>.tar \
    HEAD:<dir>
It wouldprobably not work.

If there is some web interface, like gitweb or GitHub, you can download snapshots of some subdirectory from there.

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narębski

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