Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 07/01/2014 0.01, Andreas Schwab ha scritto:
> Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Now trying
> >
> > $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs.git
> >
> >
> > I don't get any revision number.. So in my future bug report how the trunk
> > will be identified?
>
> A good way to identify a git branch is to use git describe.  However it
> prefers to have an annotated (release) tag available to base on, which
> we currently don't have (bzr doesn't have the concept of annotated
> tags).
>
> > Beside this, my local copy of BZR repository has dimension
> >
> > $ du -s emacs-trunk/
> > 126M    emacs-trunk/
> >
> > instead the git repository has dimension
> >
> > $ du -s emacs.git/
> > 1.1G    emacs.git/
>
> By default git downloads the history of all branches.  You can use
> --single-branch to only clone a single branch.  This is the default if
> you create a shallow clone.

David Kastrup wrote:

> For the build?  No.  git clone has the following options:
>
>         --depth <depth>
...
> --[no-]single-branch
...

OK, trying

$ git clone --single-branch git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs.git

the local repository has dimension 1.1G, so probably I need a more 
explicit example...

Instead, trying

$ git clone --depth 1 git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs.git

the local repository has dimension 160M which is a little greater than 
my current BZR (checkout --lightweight) repository (126M), but acceptable...

Suppose now I want identify which "revision" introduced a bug. I am able 
to do this with a binary search using the BZR command

$ bzr up -r ARG

How can I do this with the "minimal" clone done with GIT?


I hope someone creates a Wiki page with all these doubts clarified with 
explicit examples... :-)


Thanks,
 Angelo.