Re: Git new feature when cloning

From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:37:09 UTC
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 7:52 PM Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 07:46:55PM +0800, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 19:42 Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A while back, Git grew a way to filter the objects it asks the server
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the tip! Do you have a plan to integrate this excellent tutorial
> > to docs.FreeBSD.org?
>
> I was not planning to, but I could add something to the Git Primer.
>
> > PS: as filtering is done on the server, a knob needed to be enabled on
> > >     our servers, gitlab and github already supported the feature.
> > >     gitrepo.f.o and gitrepo-dev.f.o have it enabled, I am unsure about
> > >     the mirror status, but they should be ok too.
> >
> >
> > Sorry this is not done yet, there are some more issues in the real life
> > happened and I’ll work on this ASAP, should be no later than next weekend.
>
> Great, thank you.

This is enabled on gitrepo.freebsd.org and all public mirrors (git.freebsd.org).

BTW, it's recommended to clone/fetch/pull from git.freebsd.org and
only use gitrepo.f.o for pushing.

Best,
Li-Wen