13 Oct
2009
13 Oct
'09
7:02 p.m.
On Oct 13, 2009 at 15:39, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
is anyone aware of a git command that downloads locally only one branch
of sip repository?
No, I don't think there is such a tool.
If it's about space, you could clone with a depth limit (but then you
end up with a read-only repo, you cannot push changes outside).
OTOH hand you could try doing the following:
- clone repo normally
- delete all the branches you are not interested in
- run git reflog --expire-unreachable=1 and maybe with --all
- run git prune
- run git gc --aggressive --prune=today
- run git repack
At the end you should end up with only commits reachable from your
branch (but note that I never tried this).
Intead of git reflog... you could try cloning your local repo (the clone
won't know about the deleted branches and won't have a "journal" with
old branch positions).
Note though that after that you should only run
git fetch -n origin <your_branch>:origin/<your_branchy> or everything
will be sync'ed back.
I searched on the web and found only some tools, but maybe there are
standard git commands to help.
Andrei