Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote: > The way I would do it given nothing else is to simply extract snapshots > into a working directory; and create a repository from scratch. I was > just wondering if a method existed that could reduce the size of the > download. You are not by any chance talking about the --remote option to git-archive? If you want to reduce the number of objects to be downloaded, by telling the other side what you have, you literally end up with something like shallow clone: the other side _has_ to support it. Ciao, Dscho - 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