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From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:11:10
Message-Id: 81bfc67a0904111011t288e071ejc65af5da64ed901c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
2 > Both of these come under the aegis of partial trees.
3 > On the Git side, I'd like to deliberately direct you to this GSoC
4 > project:
5 > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Ideas#head-2cdf2f7bd7667427d1e20c714ca33bd92aaa4905
6 > It's been in the works for a couple of years in Git, and is well fleshed
7 > out as a proposal for now. When it does come to fruition, it will make
8 > the entire matter of having to split the repository irrelevant.
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11 shallow clone is already possible, the problem is there's no shallow
12 update. in other words, no way to give me only the new stuff... I
13 don't know about the full extent of this proposal, that that's what I
14 noticed when I played with shallow clone a few months back.
15 --
16 Caleb Cushing
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18 http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>