On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:21:17 -0400, "Jon Smirl" wrote: > > Could you clone the repo and delete changesets earlier than 2004? Then > I would clone the small repo and work with it. Later I decide I want > full history, can I pull from a full repository at that point and get > updated? That would need a flag to trigger it since I don't want full > history to come over if I am just getting updates from someone else's > tree that has a full history. This is clearly a desirable feature, and has been requested by several people (including myself) looking to switch some large-ish histories from an existing system to git. If you'd like to look through git archives for some discussion of the issues that would be involved here, look for "shallow clone". There's a related proposal termed "lazy clone" for one that would pull down missing objects as needed over the network. My impression is that both things will eventually be implemented. There's certainly nothing fundamental in git that will prevent them, (though there will be some interesting things to resolve as a real patch for this stuff is explored). -Carl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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