Tim Shimmin wrote: > I'm new to git and have a couple of novice questions. > > * Is it possible to only pull in a subtree from > a repository. I assume that by pull you mean checkout... I think it is possible (try git-read-tree with --prefix option, and select subtree by giving either it's sha1, or e.g. HEAD:<path> form), but not easy to do. Git revisions are snapshots of the whole project (the revisions are states of the whole project). > Moreover, is it possible to have a subtree based on another > repository. It is possible. For example, make empty directory <subproject> somewhere, add this directory, or just all the files in it either to .gitignore or .git/info/excludes file, then clone the other project (subproject) to this place. You would have the following directory structure / dir1 dir2 dir2/subdir subproject subproject/.git subproject/subprojectsubdir ... > * Are there any tools for dumping out the contents of the > git objects in the .git/objects directory. > By dumping out, I mean an ascii representation of the data > fields for the commit and tree objects in particular. > I've written a simple small program to dump out the index > entries (cache entries). git-cat-file -p > I just want to see what is exactly stored in the .git > binary files and how they change when I do various git > operations. Loose object are stored type+compressed contents. But usually everything except latest work is in packs. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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