Andy Parkins wrote: > For interests sake I'd like to track the kernel.org linux repository. > However, I'm not that bothered about tracking the history - it's more that I > like to have the latest kernel release lying around. > > Is there a way that I could just pull individual commits from a git > repository? In particular - could I make a repository (obviously not a > clone, because it wouldn't have all the history) that contained only the > tagged commits from an upstream repository? As of beta (in 'next') you can do 'shallow clone'm i.e. clone/fetch only N commits depth history. > Is it even sensible to want that? It strikes me that it's possible that there > isn't that much space/bandwidth saving to be made. Should I just clone the > repository and shut up? :-) I've had similar idea: search for "sparse clone" keyword. But no code. -- 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