git conversion in progress

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> Well it's likely that the server would have to repack the objects on the
> fly to supply just one branch; and it does that less well than the base
> pack).  So you'd probably end up with a much larger initial download
> than just fetching the entire history (currently ~750M).  It would
> likely take longer to fetch as well since the server has to do much more
> work to generate that custom pack.

If you use clone with -b, it still fetches all the branches and tags that 
are fetched by default and puts the branches in remotes/origin/, it just 
changes which branch gets a corresponding branch set up in refs/heads/ and 
checked out initially.  So there is no extra repacking involved.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com