Re: Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ]

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

David Lang wrote:

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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[pu]

 Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
 of 'master' although I haven't done so yet.  As he said
 himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
 such a feature to raise hands.

I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand it to be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work normally from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes reporting 'that's part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) consider my hand raised.

there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a project as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the full history (even with the good compression that a git pack provides, it's still a significant amount of disk space and download time for large projects)

I am trying to test this feature. Is there a documentation .git/shallow some where. Atleast what those entries
mean ? I know in the mail johannes mentioned only core git will touch this file. But it should be ok to be descriptive like other files. (FETCH_HEAD)

How about this

-aneesh