If you quickly need a snapshot of AS that you want to work with on the plane/train etc, do this $ time git clone git@github.com:jbosgi/jbossas.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tdiesler/git/jbossas/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 18927, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7979/7979), done. remote: Total 18927 (delta 9323), reused 17854 (delta 8509) Receiving objects: 100% (18927/18927), 39.73 MiB | 686 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (9323/9323), done. real 1m8.027s user 0m4.662s sys 0m1.985s Note, this is every commit since 6.0.0.M2 (not just trunk) ;-) So you can branch your work on any commit. -thomas -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thomas Diesler JBoss OSGi Lead JBoss, a division of Red Hat xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx