Re: [git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
as well as this :- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14738219/how-to-resume-a-git-pull-clone-after-a-hung-up-unexpectedly -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexpe

Re: [git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
I did see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3954852/how-to-complete-a-git-clone-for-a-big-project-on-an-unstable-connection before starting this whole thread. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.or

Re: [git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On 8/26/13, Gergely Polonkai wrote: > Knowing that we are speaking of a GitHub repo, here you go: > > git clone https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game.git flare-game > > This will create a directory called flare-game. Now if you can just take > home this directory home, you are f

Re: [git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Knowing that we are speaking of a GitHub repo, here you go: git clone https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game.git flare-game This will create a directory called flare-game. Now if you can just take home this directory home, you are finished already, as the only thing you need to do to update

[git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- "if I'm getting it right, there is a read only repo that you want to take home. In this case, git-bundle is good for you. Follow the git-bundle man-page, where R1 should be the read only repo, and R2 your home repo." - Gergely Polonkai Dear Gergely, This is way over my head. I haven't

Re: [git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread Gergely Polonkai
if I'm getting it right, there is a read only repo that you want to take home. In this case, git-bundle is good for you. Follow the git-bundle man-page, where R1 should be the read only repo, and R2 your home repo. First, create the initial bundle: cd R1 git bundle create /home/you/file.bundle ma

[git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
@Gergely Polonkai I read the bit about git-bundle but have no idea how it works. I did read the manpage and correct me if I'm wrong but it seems it's for the person who's the owner of the project. I have no commit access to the repo. I shared, I'm just a user who's interested in getting a game. If

Re: [git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Hello, out of the solutions provided by the Stack Overflow article (mentioned by Thomas), I would definitely choose git-bundle. That is the safest way, as the only thing you will need to know is the last commit you have in the other repository. See [1], the EXAMPLES section holds some good, well,

[git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
Wouldn't another way :- ~/games/flare-game$git fetch --depth=n (incrementally increasing the depth each time) work out ? I know it would be very long to do the whole depth as there are over 553 commits in there till the time the magic number of 553 commits are reached. Maybe do jumps of 100 commit

[git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-26 Thread shirish शिरीष
@Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen thank you for the prompt reply. I read the link about rsync (actually had read that a while back) but couldn't get around as to how to do it. Should I be doing ~/games/flare-game$ rsync https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game . or some other way ? ~/games/flare-g

[git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-25 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:03:12 PM UTC+2, Shirish Agarwal wrote: > Hi all, > This is going to be a longish one, so please pull up a chair. > > I'm trying to get a repository . The repo. is > https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game . Now I'm on a unstable > network so first I tried the

[git-users] Re: git --depth=1 to git fetch --unshallow. does it do just the diff ?

2013-08-25 Thread shirish शिरीष
oh, and please CC me if somebody gets some answer/s for this. I'm not subscribed to the list as it would overwhelm me (the mailing list.) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ ht