Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
* Florian G. Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070430 08:58]:
It seems as if git pulls all revisions of all files during the pull -
which it shouldn't do as far as I understand things - it should only
pull those objects referenced by some head, no?
Git pulls full history to a common ancestor on the clone/pull. So the
first pull on a repo *will* necessarily pull in the full object history.
So unless you have a recent common ancestor, it will pull lots. Note
that because git uses crypto hashes to identify objects, my conversion
and Martin's probably do not have a recent common ancestor (because my
header munging probably doesn't match Martin's exactly).
Ah, OK - that explains things.
The interesting thing is that exactly the same problem occurs with
both if your mirrors...
Any ideas? Or is this just how things are supposed to work?
Until you have a local repository of it, you'll need to go through the
full pull/clone. If you're really not interested in history you can
"truncate" history with the --depth option to git clone. That will give
you a "shallow repository", which you can use, develop, branch, etc in,
but won't give you all the history locally.
I'll retry with the "--depth" option - I'm doing development on my powerbook,
and OSX seems to cope badly with lots of little files - the initial unpacking
took hours - literally..
Also - what version of GIT are you using? I *really* recommend using at
least 1.5 (1.5.2.X is current stable). Please, do your self a favour,
and don't use 1.4.4.
I'm using 1.5.0 currently - it was the latest stable release when I began
to experiment with git.
greetings, Florian Pflug
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