On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ori Livneh <o...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> You can use a shallow clone to pull new changes. As far as committing,
> 'git review -s' will actually trigger fetching the entire history. So this
> way the bandwidth costs of pulling the entire history are deferred until
> you are ready to commit a patch, which shortens the time it takes to get a
> functional MediaWiki instance.
>
> In the course of investigating this, I realized that the current version
> does not configure a remote, which is perhaps why git pull didn't work for
> you (if you tried it). I'll fix that.
>

Aha, OK. I tried running git pull and it gave me some weird indexing error.
If git-review works, though, then that's fine.

*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com
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