From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:02:33 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061021150233.c29e11c5.seanlkml__32740.957910619$1161457371$gmane$org@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20061021185825.GC29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:58:25 +0200
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:

> In bzr this was already discussed and the storage supports so called
> "ghost" revisions, whose existence is known, but not their data. There
> are even repositories around that contain them (created by converting
> data from arch), but to my best knowledge there is no user interface to
> create branches or checkouts with partial data.

In Git the same functionality can be achieved with so called shallow-
clones.  Unfortunately, they've only been discussed and not yet
implemented.

Sean