On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:09:21 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 9/7/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> "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? > > From my observation the casual user does something like this: > > get a shallow clone This could basically be something which look at the remote HEAD and pulls down a copy of that commit/tree (and associated objects), right? > look at it for a while > pull once a day to keep it up to date Same again. > decide to make some changes > start a local branch > commit changes on local branch > > push these changes to someone else for review > maybe pull changes on the branch back from the other person [...] At what point, if any, do you envisage a casual user pulling down a full copy of the repository? Cheers, Anand - 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