On 16 February 2012 10:22, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@...> wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 08:24 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>>> > I tried every incarnation of git clone based on
>>> > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/GIT and still couldn't
>>> > get it to work - eg:
>>> >
> <snip>
>>> > git clone http://drankin@.../scm/git/tde-packaging/
> <snip>
>
>> git clone http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
>>
>> if you look on scm.trinitydesktop.org and select a repository,
>> underneath it will give you some info like this:
>> Name:         tde-packaging
>> Type:         Git (git)
>> Contact:      kb9vqf@...
>> Url:  http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
>> Checkout: git clone http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
>>
>> use the checkout url :-)
>
> Thanks Calvin!
>
> 08:38 nirvana:~/tdenew/git> git clone
> http://drankin@.../scm/git/tde-packaging
> Cloning into 'tde-packaging'...
> remote: Counting objects: 18409, done
> remote: Finding sources: 100% (18409/18409)
> Receiving objects:  76% (14024/18409), 83.66 MiB | 39 KiB/s
> Receiving objects:  98% (18091/18409), 98.16 MiB | 49 KiB/s
> remote: Total 18409 (delta 8226), reused 18409 (delta 8226)
> Receiving objects: 100% (18409/18409), 108.53 MiB | 57 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (8226/8226), done.
>
>  I cannot believe the only issue that kept it from working the first time was
> the trailing '/'! Compare:
>
>  Unsuccessful:
>
> git clone http://drankin@.../scm/git/tde-packaging/
>
>  Successful:
>
> git clone http://drankin@.../scm/git/tde-packaging
>
>  So is there no way to clone 'arch' alone, you have to pull the whole
> tde-packaging tree? The size isn't that much, but the bandwidth is very slow.
> Being able to clone a single distro's build scripts would eliminate over 50% of
> the demand on tde-packaging cloning. Eg:
>
> 09:03 nirvana:~/tdenew/git/tde-packaging> for i in */; do echo "  $i"; du -hcs
> $i; done
>  arch/
> 30M     arch/
> 30M     total
>  ark/
> 4.0K    ark/
> 4.0K    total
>  debian/
> 53M     debian/
> 53M     total
>  fedora/
> 8.0K    fedora/
> 8.0K    total
>  mandriva/
> 11M     mandriva/
> 11M     total
>  opensuse/
> 35M     opensuse/
> 35M     total
>  redhat/
> 24M     redhat/
> 24M     total
>  slackware/
> 4.0K    slackware/
> 4.0K    total
>  ubuntu/
> 75M     ubuntu/
> 75M     total
>
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>

yes essentially this is one of the worst things about git.