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Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>, 	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> I assume git repo has both binutils and gdb. Is that possible to
>> only checkout binutils portion?
>
> AFAIK, partial checkouts are not possible with git. That's one of
> the reasons I felt it was so tough to get out of CVS.
>

What is wrong with git mirror?  I only use CVS for checkin and use git
mirror for everything else.  The only minor inconvenience I run into is the
git mirror delay.


-- 
H.J.