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On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 08:42:34AM +0800, JonY wrote:
> On 4/26/2014 07:27, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > This is exactly what makes me dislike it strongly. This, and idiotic model of
> > copying whole repository to my machine, when I only want to glance at the
> > source code, and find the culprit of my current issues.
> > I've spent 3 hours downloading a 200Mb repo of a project, where the Subversion
> > client pulled 4 or 5Mb HEAD of it in like 10 minutes, once I realized what an
> > idiotic weight I pulled and went to google to see if it can be done better.
> > And "fine control" doesn't mix with "project consistency" at all.
> > Subversion is aimed at versioning of a whole project, in a supposedly
> > consistent state at each version. What can be more "fine" than this, is beyond
> > my understanding.
>
> git clone --depth 1 if you don't care about history.
>
> > You can still commit separate files from working copy, though, but this
> > practice is discouraged for the greater good of the project you develop.
> >
>
> Don't you need to git add individual files to mark for commit? Won't you
> get into the same problems if you forgot to commit files in SVN?
>
>
>
"git commit -a" commits modified files without the need to add them first.
You always have to add new files.

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