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Subject:    Re: [Kde-scm-interest] scripty questions
From:       Magnus Bergmark <magnus.bergmark () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-23 17:41:52
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2009/5/23 Chani <chanika@gmail.com>

> the only thing that might make it slow or bad for hte (git)
> server is if git makes it really hard to take only the doc folder from the
> repo.


It is not possible to do a partial clone of a repository since Git doesn't
work that way. Now, Git does have very good compression and if most of the
files there seldom changes, the bandwidth usage shouldn't really be a
problem.

If you really need to clone a specific directory, you have two solutions:
    1. Make the directory a separate repository and have it as a submodule
in the parent repository. Cons: Complex and not really easy to use.
    2. Don't use git for that directory; just fetch a tar.gz via HTTP. Cons:
Should be obvious. Not really a solution.

/me goes back to lurking.

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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/23 Chani <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:chanika@gmail.com">chanika@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">the only thing that might make it slow or \
bad for hte (git)</div> server is if git makes it really hard to take only the doc \
folder from the<br> repo.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is not possible to do a \
partial clone of a repository since Git doesn&#39;t work that way. Now, Git does have \
very good compression and if most of the files there seldom changes, the bandwidth \
usage shouldn&#39;t really be a problem.</div> <div><br></div><div>If you really need \
to clone a specific directory, you have two solutions:</div><div>       1. Make the \
directory a separate repository and have it as a submodule in the parent repository. \
Cons: Complex and not really easy to use.</div> <div>       2. Don&#39;t use git for \
that directory; just fetch a tar.gz via HTTP. Cons: Should be obvious. Not really a \
solution.</div><div><br></div><div>/me goes back to lurking.</div></div><br>-- \
                <br>Magnus Bergmark - magnus DOT bergmark AT gmail DOT com<br>
GPG/PGP: 0x7BE84794DB6AA648<br>Fingerprint: 0E6F D2DB F0EF 534A 2184 52AF 7BE8 4794 \
DB6A A648<br>



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