Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Doing a fresh git clone git://some.git.url/ foo seems to download the >> entire remote repository even if all the objects are already stored in >> GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/home/bcrl/.git/object . Is this a known bug? >> At 100MB for a kernel, this takes a *long* time. > > I believe it is a known missing feature. :-) git-clone doesn't > prep HEAD to have some sort of starting point so the pull it uses > to download everything literally downloads everything as nothing > is in common. You would first 'clone -l -s' from your local repository and then clone into that from whatever remote, perhaps. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html