On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:33:34PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>
>I have just learned a new trick which would help people with limited bandwidth.
>
>It is not a subtree clone, but the result is practically the same and
>the downloaded data is minimal:
>$ git archive --remote=ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/ffmpeg.git
>master debian/ | tar xvf -
>
>It does not work with GitHub, but does perfectly with git.debian.org.

And it throws away the .git directory, making it useless for people
working on stuff - they can't commit...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                st...@einval.com
"I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant,
 now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross

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