[Savannah-cvs] [UsingGit] (edit) document shallow copies and git-cvssserver

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Shallow checkouts
=================

When bandwidth is an issue, people can download the latest version of your 
repository without downloading all the history, using "shallow checkouts". Note 
that such a copy has limitations, see 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html , option 
``--depth`` for details. 

Example::

 $ git clone --depth 1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
 Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/gnulib/.git/
 remote: Counting objects: 9897, done.
 remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5462/5462), done.
 Indexing 9897 objects...
 remote: Total 9897 (delta 7382), reused 5737 (delta 4419)
  100% (9897/9897) done
 Resolving 7382 deltas...
  100% (7382/7382) done
 
 $ du -sh gnulib/.git
 6,3M   gnulib/.git
 
 $ du -sh full-gnulib/.git
 28M    full-gnulib/.git


git-cvsserver pserver compatibility
===================================

You can download a git repository using the CVS client, thanks to a 
pserver-compatible server from git::

 $ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/autoconf.git co -d autoconf master
 cvs checkout: Updating autoconf
 U autoconf/.cvsignore
 U autoconf/.gitattributes
 U autoconf/.gitignore
 U autoconf/.x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof
 U autoconf/.x-sc_space_tab
 U autoconf/.x-sc_sun_os_names
 U autoconf/.x-sc_trailing_blank
 U autoconf/.x-sc_useless_cpp_parens
 U autoconf/AUTHORS
 U autoconf/BUGS
 U autoconf/COPYING
 ...


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