On Thursday, 30 August 2012 11:34:52 UTC+1, Haasip Satang wrote: > > So the question actually is why does > > git clone --depth 1 --no-hardlinks *file:///*home/me/gitTests/subtreeRepo > -b subtrees/xyz *xyz * > > give me a small clone (*but only locally), *while cloning from remote I > get a big one. >
What transport are you cloning over? When cloning over a "smart" transport (smart http(s), ssh, git://) a git process on the local machine communicates with one on the remote machine, and between them they negotiate which objects need to be transferred. The remote process then compresses these objects into a custom packfile, and this is transferred. When cloning over a "dumb" protocol (dumb http(s), ftp), there's no way of spawning a git process on the remote machine. Therefore the local process just has to download whatever packfiles are available. If there are no packfiles corresponding to the objects required for a shallow clone, git may (in the worst case) end up downloading the entirety of your history, even if it doesn't need to. The same goes for fetches: if the only way to get the required new objects is to download everything, this is what git has to do. I suspect you're cloning over a dumb transport, and this is what's causing the effects you're seeing. Smart http(s) has been supported by git for a long time, and, although trickier to set up on the remote side, is definitely worth it. Hope that helps, Antony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/0PlD-lKA-pIJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
