> On 3/1/11 7:53 AM, Fahri Reza wrote: >> how about doing shallow clone with >> $git-clone --depth=1 >> then run recursive-diff on the sub-directories (n=1 is just an example) >> >> can someone gives comment whether this approach is recommended? >> > Clone with depth parameters will help reduce size, yep. Not sure what
I just thought that if I use this, it's pretty much like fetching drupal without the tar.gz attribute (compression), and the benefits from incremental- diffs from git is not well implemented. > you're going for with a diff on subdirs - if you mean diffing modules, > then diffing subdirs really depends on how you've chosen to compose your > tree - submodules, subtree merges, or plain nested repos. he he, my kmail doesn't support quoting for now, it's related to the OP's question: .. our usual practice with clients was to checkout core and contrib using CVS, so that we can easily monitor any patches that have been applied, .. -- fireh --
