On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net> wrote:
>
> > I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout
> is over
> > 300Mb.
>
> That's git for you. When you go to git it, you git ALL of it. Kind of
> like deciding to download sources and getting the entire venti arena.
>
> ron
>
> Wouldn't Mercurial do the same?  Darcs (a haskell source control system)
let's you get a subset of all the history, and if a patch refers to a really
old revision you don't have, will go get that and its dependencies.  It's
like a lazy-repository.  At least I think that's how it works, or that's how
it's been explained to me.
Is there a way to git a partial repository or hg a partial repository?

Dave