Hi Mike, On Friday 08 February 2008 19:49, Mike Hommey wrote: > There are 2 things, here: > - Probably, you can make your pack smaller with proper window sizing. > Try taking a look at the "Git and GCC" that crossed borders between > the gcc and the git mailing lists. Just trying this :-) > - There are tricks to do roughly what you want without modifying git. > For example, you can prepare several "shared" clones of your repo (git > clone -s) and leave in each only a few branches. Cloning from these will > only pull the needed data. Good to know about this, thank you! The problem currently is that we are trying to produce SVN and git trees containing the same data, the same number of branches, etc. for the sake of comparison. If git wins, and it will be chosen for OOo, we'll be hopefully able to do more tuning - and I'm sure I'll ask here for help ;-) Regards, Jan - 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