On Tue, 20 May 2014 18:18:08 +0000 "Stewart, Louis (IS)" <louis.stewart@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From you response then there is a method to only obtain the Project, > Directory and Files (which could hold 80 GBs of data) and not the > rest of the Repository that contained the full overall Projects? Please google the phrase "Git shallow cloning". I would also recommend to read up on git-annex [1]. You might also consider using Subversion as it seems you do not need most benefits Git has over it and want certain benefits Subversion has over Git: * You don't need a distributed VCS (as you don't want each developer to have a full clone). * You only need a single slice of the repository history at any given revision on a developer's machine, and this is *almost* what Subversion does: it will keep the so-called "base" (or "pristine") versions of files comprising the revision you will check out, plus the checked out files theirselves. So, twice the space of the files comprising a revision. * Subversion allows you to check out only a single folder out of the entire revision. * IIRC, subversion supports locks, when a developer might tell the server they're editing a file, and this will prevent other devs from locking the same file. This might be used to serialize editions of huge and/or unmergeable files. Git can't do that (without non-standard tools deployed on the side or a centralized "meeting point" repository). My point is that while Git is fantastic for managing source code projects and project of similar types with regard to their contents, it seems your requirements are mainly not suitable for the use case Git is best tailored for. Your apparent lack of familiarity with Git might as well bite you later should you pick it right now. At least please consider reading a book or some other introduction-level material on Git to get the feeling of typical workflows used with it. 1. https://git-annex.branchable.com/ -- 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