Re: Tracking a repository for content instead of history

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

The way I would do it given nothing else is to simply extract snapshots 
into a working directory; and create a repository from scratch.  I was 
just wondering if a method existed that could reduce the size of the 
download.

You are not by any chance talking about the --remote option to 
git-archive?

If you want to reduce the number of objects to be downloaded, by telling 
the other side what you have, you literally end up with something like 
shallow clone: the other side _has_ to support it.

Ciao,
Dscho