On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > Well it's likely that the server would have to repack the objects on the > fly to supply just one branch; and it does that less well than the base > pack). So you'd probably end up with a much larger initial download > than just fetching the entire history (currently ~750M). It would > likely take longer to fetch as well since the server has to do much more > work to generate that custom pack.
If you use clone with -b, it still fetches all the branches and tags that are fetched by default and puts the branches in remotes/origin/, it just changes which branch gets a corresponding branch set up in refs/heads/ and checked out initially. So there is no extra repacking involved. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
