Hi,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan, could you update /Git wiki page with an example of git clone
> specifying only head branch and how to add another branch later. That
> would make local repository copy smaller, pull faster and
> 'git branch -r' output much shorter.
Here you go:
$ mkdir small-clone
$ cd small-clone
$ git init
# Tell git to fetch only master (AKA head) and stable/8 branches
$ git remote add -t master -t stable/8 origin
git://git.freebsd.your.org/freebsd.git
$ git fetch origin # fetches about 1.6M objects
remote: Counting objects: 1600952, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (418377/418377), done.
remote: Total 1600952 (delta 1227540), reused 1524707 (delta 1159458)
Receiving objects: 100% (1600952/1600952), 632.85 MiB | 3.12 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1227540/1227540), done.
From git://git.freebsd.your.org/freebsd
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
* [new branch] stable/8 -> origin/stable/8
# Add stable/7 branch and fetch it
$ git remote set-branches origin --add stable/7
$ git fetch origin
remote: Counting objects: 35713, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11359/11359), done.
remote: Total 27595 (delta 20679), reused 22440 (delta 16043)
Receiving objects: 100% (27595/27595), 14.40 MiB | 1.93 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (20679/20679), completed with 2329 local objects.
From git://git.freebsd.your.org/freebsd
* [new branch] stable/7 -> origin/stable/7
$ git branch -r
origin/HEAD -> origin/head
origin/master
origin/stable/7
origin/stable/8
Practically it does not save you all that much on repo size or the
time to fetch stuff. Complete clone is ~700M/1.9M objects and
head+stable/8 clone is only about 10% smaller. If you really want to
have smaller repo you will need to trip repo history. I'm not sure yet
how to do that.
--Artem