Ineiev wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 05:54:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > I don't think any web page histories are going to be large enough to > > make the full download of the entire history to be a problem. > > For a group like www, they are (at the very least, the history is > much longer than the pages themselves).
Perhaps for the web pages at least we should hint on the cvs section of "Webpages repository" https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=... to use "git clone --depth=1 ..." instead of a full depth clone. That would keep the data transfer needs reduced when not needed. In the future when this feature eventually becomes available. Bob