RFE: use patchwork to submit a patch

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 07:21:51 AEDT 2019


Eric Wong wrote:
> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>> This is actually really fast if you already have a local copy of the
>> repository with most objects. Try this yourself if you have
>> torvalds/linux.git locally:
>>
>> git clone --bare -s torvalds/linux.git test
>
> Yep, -s (--shared) makes cloning really cheap.  One of my goals is to get
>
> 	git clone -s https://example.com/torvalds/linux.git
>
> and
>
> 	git clone -s https://example.com/torvalds/linux.git/clone.bundle
>
> working.  That would make it easier for new contributors to
> setup lightweight clones and pull in history on an as-needed
> basis w/o hacks like shallow cloning.

Does "git clone --filter=blob:none" do what you're looking for?

Thanks,
Jonathan


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