Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

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