git-clone

I'm setting up a test-architecture. In this system a VM has to test a specific revision of the code. The VM is completely clean, and does not have a local (updatable) version of the repo. The code is being hosted on an on-site git server, over ssh with a user named git. I have full control over both machines. The easy solution is: git clone --no-checkout git@gitserver:reponame.git git checkout 8e8fdea8f8367f4a179d2faddbaadba495d6bc12 This works, but does too much: It transfers the full history over the network, something I want to avoid if at all possible. It seems to me from the documentation

I've recently started working on a project that uses git for storage and ruby as a front-end. The first version of my script used ruby-git, which was ok though pretty simple. When I needed to do more specific work with my commits and logs it was recommended that I move to grit. However, I've a road block early on- grit seems incapable of cloning remote repositories. All examples I've found using the Repository class create a local repository and searching through the source I've found Grit's clone method is undefined. What gives? This is my first StackOverflow question, so thanks in advance

If I retrieve a shallow clone, e.g. git clone --depth 10 http://foo.bar/baz.git Does git have any command to retrieve the depth of this clone? (e.g. a command that simply prints 10 ). Short answer: no. The number is not stored anywhere (unless you store it yourself—and it might be nice if Git saved it in .git/config somewhere). A repository is shallow (by Git's internal definition) if and only if the file .git/shallow exists. The contents of this file are a bit sneaky: most of Git treats it in exactly the same way as .git/grafts . That is, each line in the shallow file contains a commit hash

I just bought a new computer and I am trying to clone my heroku project on it. Here's what I've done so far. I didn't include the trace, but everything was saved in the right place, and the functions ran without errors. >> sudo ssh-keygen >> heroku keys:add >> sudo git clone -o heroku git@heroku.com:myapp.git Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/macuser/Sites/shwagr/shwagr/.git/ Permission denied (publickey). Then I heard about doing it through ssh bash.. >ssh-agent bash >ssh-add ~/.ssh Permissions 0777 for '/Users/macuser/.ssh' are too open. It is recommended that your private key files