On Friday, March 27th, 2015 at 9:11AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Kana Natsuno wrote: > > > On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 5:00:19 AM UTC+9, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > Isn't there a way to clone only up to some time ago, e.g., the 7.4 > > > release? I rather leave this a decision on the user side than on the > > > server side (meaning that history would be lost forever). > > > > git clone --depth 1 > > Right, that is what I was looking for. So whoever just wants a > convenient way to pull the latest version can use this as the fastest > method. We should add this to the instructions (e.g. for users who have > limited bandwidth).
For users who do this, when they update, I believe they will need the following: git pull --update-shallow Otherwise, any normal update (via `git pull` or `git fetch`) will pull down everything. Peter -- We have not been faced with the need to satisfy someone else's requirements, and for this freedom we are grateful. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.