Re: [3/5] Add http-pull

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:00:33AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> > > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:46:35PM CEST, I got a letter
> > > > where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> > > > 
> > > > Huh. Why? You just go back to history until you find a commit you
> > > > already have. If you did it the way as Tony described, if you have that
> > > > commit, you can be sure that you have everything it depends on too.
> > > 
> > > But if you download 1000 files of the 1010 you need, and then your network
> > > goes down, you will need to download those 1000 again when it comes back,
> > > because you can't save them unless you have the full history. 
> > 
> > Why can't I? I think I can do that perfectly fine. The worst thing that
> > can happen is that fsck-cache will complain a bit.
> 
> Not if you're using the fact that you don't have them to tell you that you
> still need the other 10, which is what tony's scheme would do.
>