"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Does an average user do these things? The shallow clone is there to > address the casual user who gags at a five hour download to get an > initial check out Mozilla when they want to make a five line change or > just browse the source for a few minutes. >... > Maybe the answer is to build a shallow clone tool for casual use, and > then if you try to run anything too complex on it git just tells you > that you have to download the entire tree. For that kind of thing, "git-tar-tree --remote" would suffice I would imagine. The five line change can be tracked locally by creating an initial commit from the tar-tree extract; such a casual user will not be pushing or asking to pull but sending in patches to upstream, no? - To unsubscribe from this list: 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