On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, eric miao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [could you please remove irrelevant parts of the reply? TIA] >> There is so called "shallow clone" feature, which allows to clone only >> part of history. Currently it dupports only --depth, i.e. number of >> commits from tips; it could I guess support providing tag as >> delimiter. (You are welcome to implement it ;-). >> > > I haven't ever used the shallow clone, but it looks still a bit different > from what I thought originally, say, if I download linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2 > from kernel.org, that's about 40MB and should be a fair amount. > I then unpack and "git init", I expect it to recognize it's a v2.6.24, > and I can thereafter use "git fetch" to fetch those commits after > v2.6.24 from git.kernel.org. Is this possible? No, this doesn't work and couldn't work. The tarfile contains only _contents_ of the working directory, and perhaps commit-id, but it doesn't contain even shred of history. Git has no information of where this content is in linux kernel git history. You have to do "git clone --depth=1 <url>"; surrently there is no way to specify "git clone --from=<tag> <url>". I guess you can try to get info browsing gitweb, and fudge with grafts. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
