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Re: Will git have a baseline feature or something alike?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2008, 18:00 UTC
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<200803011900.36723.jnareb@gmail.com>
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Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
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> Okay, as a git n00b I'm probably on completely the wrong track, but if  
> you made a git repository out of a kernel tarball (cd linux-2.6.24 &&  
> git init && git add .) and then did a shallow fetch from kernel.org  
> into that repository, wouldn't the blobs you added get reused  
> (assuming the tarball you downloaded was fairly recent), thus reducing  
> the amount of data fetch has to transfer?

I think it wouldn't. If I understand it correctly, the fetching engine deals only with commits. If you have commit, it assumes that you have tree, blobs, and ancestors. If you don't have commit, it assumes that you don't have tree and blobs.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. eric miaoFeb 29, 2008
  2. SeanFeb 29, 2008
  3. Karl HasselströmFeb 29, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiFeb 29, 2008
  5. Sam VilainMar 1, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 1, 2008
  7. Sam VilainMar 1, 2008
  8. Jan HudecMar 2, 2008
  9. Martin LanghoffMar 2, 2008
  10. eric miaoMar 1, 2008
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 1, 2008
  12. Jakub NarebskiMar 1, 2008
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  15. Shawn O. PearceMar 2, 2008
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