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