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It's still not the same as perforce's mappings. Even with shallow repos, git will force you to download the entire world each time you pull or fetch.
by kmiroslav 10y ago
It's still not the same as perforce's mappings. Even with shallow repos, git will force you to download the entire world each time you pull or fetch.
- jahewson 10y agoThat's not really the entire world though, because the history before the shallow clone will not be pulled or fetched. You'll get all the new stuff though.
- slededit 10y agoI don't think the scale of these places are fully appreciated. Your local enlistment could be a few hundred gigabytes and that is only the head revision of stuff you work with daily. Keeping more than just the current revision around is a lot of data for even a beefy workstation.