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

[Antonio Nikishaev]

Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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?
>
> Git does not have any concept like Bazaar's lightweight checkouts -
> nor does any other dvcd afaik.

Darcs has clever lazy repos. (Everything works. If the stuff which is
not yet in the repository is needed, it will be downloaded.)

Just FYI