Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Shawn Pearce wrote: > >Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>Shallow clone is a development feature still being working on in > >>>Junio's 'pu' branch of git.git. It has a few issues still to be > >>>worked out so it hasn't been made part of one of the more stable > >>>branches yet (like 'next', 'master', or 'maint'). > >>Well, until it's available on an official git release, it doesn't help me. > > > >One of the reasons its hanging out in 'pu' still is that there is > >a lack of people who are interested in the feature, and thus not > >enough people are testing it. Perhaps you might be able to lend > >a hand in that regard? > > Sure, I can do that! Can you give me some pointers? I've never done > development on git itself, so I don't know Junio or his pu (sorry, I > couldn't resist :-)). Junio C Hamano is the Git maintainer. His published Git repository is here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ though it oddly has pack files from Jun 2006 in the wrong directory. Weird. Anyway... If you clone from that URL, or better though the native Git protocol: git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git you will get a branch called `pu`, which is the set of "Proposed Updates" to Git that Junio and others are currently working on. You can then checkout a branch off that, and build it: git checkout -b pu-build pu make finally you can either run from that directory (see INSTALL file) or you can install the binary somewhere else. We don't really recommend using `pu` for production level work, so make sure you have a backup of any repository you run it on. :) -- Shawn. - 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