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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:27:11
Message-Id: 20090411T172616Z@curie.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption by Caleb Cushing
1 On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:11:08PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
2 > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Both of these come under the aegis of partial trees.
4 > > On the Git side, I'd like to deliberately direct you to this GSoC
5 > > project:
6 > > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Ideas#head-2cdf2f7bd7667427d1e20c714ca33bd92aaa4905
7 > > It's been in the works for a couple of years in Git, and is well fleshed
8 > > out as a proposal for now. When it does come to fruition, it will make
9 > > the entire matter of having to split the repository irrelevant.
10 > shallow clone is already possible, the problem is there's no shallow
11 > update. in other words, no way to give me only the new stuff... I
12 > don't know about the full extent of this proposal, that that's what I
13 > noticed when I played with shallow clone a few months back.
14 That's explicitly why I mentioned the project above actually. Because
15 one of their objects IS to allow commits into a shallow/narrow checkout.
16
17 P.S. Please use reply to list.
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20 Robin Hugh Johnson
21 Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
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