From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) From: Eric Van Hensbergen In-Reply-To: <13426df10910011119h18aff08fha0ad3bc665071c42@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:26:38 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <55B02A31-7304-462B-AC1F-61719172FB2A@gmail.com> References: <4c83c9076f3de55d5a49deff52f0f37c@proxima.alt.za> <140e7ec30910010322j13a193b4j7b0bb9704cbb4604@mail.gmail.com> <20091001132324.GA8508@nipl.net> <13426df10910011119h18aff08fha0ad3bc665071c42@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b77ac00-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Actually, you can specify a depth argument and only get the most recent revision (and/or some number of revisions back) -- it does not, however, allow you to only grab a subdirectory (that I'm aware of) -- which is why we package 9p-sac in a separate repo. -eric On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:19 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins 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 >