on Thu Feb 14 2013, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
If you're trying to save disk, you could try using a shallow clone(?)
That would be the first thing I tried almost two months ago with the git CLI. And it turns out to not be currently possible as fetching subrepos recursively ignores the shallow clone for the subrepos.
You don't have to fetch recursively, though. You seem to want to do something unorthodox with Git *and* at the same time want it to take only a few simple lines of code. I don't think that's necessarily reasonable.
I subsequently spent from that time up to a short time ago trying to do a shallow clone with dulwich without "intellectual" success (i.e. I don't understand enough of the protocol and API to do it). And gave up on that for now. So it's now not space efficient.. But at least it works.
That's really what matters.
I'll see about finding out a way to do the shallow clone in the future.
I think you have your priorities straight :-) -- Dave Abrahams