Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:32:25AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Andreas Enge skribis: >> > It looks like: >> >--depth=1 --single-branch >> > could be useful parameters for "git clone". >> Yes, that’s what came to mind. >> If it happens to be useful, we could exten

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello! Sorry for my late reply, I have been working on something else in the meantime. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 01:31:51PM +, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Google web fonts has droid font available in zip format via http [1], > not sure if the link is works across updates. Thanks, that could be

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-13 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 11:03:48 PM Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to package the droid font family. It appears to be available > only via the android git at: >https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+ > /android-4.4.4_r2.0.1/data/fonts/ > where >https://andr

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > It looks like: >--depth=1 --single-branch > could be useful parameters for "git clone". Yes, that’s what came to mind. If it happens to be useful, we could extend ‘git-reference’ with a list of extra parameters to pass to ‘git’. Ludo’.

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Finally, I also tried a git "sparse checkout" to only obtain the data/fonts/ subdirectory. It does not seem to do what I need, as it still claims it will download 1.5 GB. My guess is that it filters the files after the download. Andreas

Re: Large git repositories

2015-01-12 Thread Andreas Enge
It looks like: --depth=1 --single-branch could be useful parameters for "git clone". Andreas