>Okay, if you're going to be doing shallow clones, you may as well just get the dang tarballs. This is totally flying in the face of what the -git packages really are, development packages. Once you download it, you never have to again, just update it. If you've got a problem with the size, then somehow get a physical copy of it, or just take the time to get a revision, then keep it updated gradually.
no. because there is no snapshot tarball available all the time, we use git clone. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:57 PM, William Giokas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 05:40:40PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote: >> Thanks William. But I dont think the discussion is deep as what we >> have right now. >> Apparently allan miscalculates how much we can save on using shallow clone. >> I tried linux/master yesterday, it is more like 600mb to 97mb. > > Okay, if you're going to be doing shallow clones, you may as well just > get the dang tarballs. This is totally flying in the face of what the > -git packages really are, development packages. Once you download it, > you never have to again, just update it. If you've got a problem with > the size, then somehow get a physical copy of it, or just take the time > to get a revision, then keep it updated gradually. > > Thanks, > -- > William Giokas | KaiSforza > GnuPG Key: 0x73CD09CF > Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306 E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF
