[Kde-scm-interest] scripty questions

[Magnus Bergmark]

2009/5/23 Chani <chanika at 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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