Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Andreas Schwab]

Mike Mattie <address@hidden> writes:

> good point, even in the U.S the midwest is still on dialup outside of
> the major metro regions. I am on broad-band so I never checked if git
> has a "resume" option to continue a clone operation that is interrupted,
> or if that is integral to clone.

You can clone a shallow copy of the repository and deepen it later.

> Another thing that has not been mentioned is the usefulness of dropping
> or limiting history. I made a slight mistake in the arguments to git
> log and I ended up with a 23 Mb log buffer that went back to the 'mid 90's.

You can always interrupt the process.

Andreas.

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