Lyndon,

Did you get it to run on OpenBSD?

J.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:49 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote in
>  <0903a00d50966fc2@orthanc.ca>:
>  |Steffen Nurpmeso writes:
>  |> It can even be as small as
>  |>
>  |>   #?0|kent:unix-hist$ du -sh .
>  |>   179M    .
>  |>
>  |> when not including all the new FreeBSD things (for which i at
>  |> least track the FreeBSD git repository directly):
>
> Traffic size is a real issue for me.
> (As is quality of the rtw88 driver of Linux 5.10.*, as is the fact
> that git i think still cannot resume failed clones.  I anyway had
> lots and lots of trouble and yes grief due to this, here.)
>
>  |Okay, so what's the magic incantation to clone just that subset
>  |of branches?  git-clone(1) is not helpful ...
>
> Backward compatible for "the one real git" is
>
>  $ cd DIR; git init
>  $ git remote add origin -t BRANCH1 -t BRANCH2 -t 'release/*' URL
>  $ git fetch -v
>
> Or git init and then copy the snippet :)
> (Mind you, just a few weeks ago on FreeBSD it turned out that
> i should re-learn git from scratch.  I turned to it around
> 2010/11, wrote some scripts and aliases, and unless they break,
> for example due to rev-list reverting output in about 2013, i have
> a very basic way of doing, lots of update-ref and such, for
> example.)
>
> And sorry for the late reply, after weeks of -11° Celsius and
> months of winter we had 31° more yesterday, including sunshine,
> and i went for cycling.  Then someone reported a brain-damage of
> mine in software i maintain, and i had to make a release, and then
> it was about 3 o'clock in the morning.
>
> --steffen
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)

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