From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:33:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)
Message-ID: <20110203213315.GD16391@elie>
In-Reply-To: <5E0364BF-35CD-4797-BBAF-98A54D1F7F6E@adacore.com>

Geert Bosch wrote:

>                                           Some would rather
> spend 30+ days of CPU time to import an entire SVN repository with
> branch forests straight into git than considering organization.
> Of course the resulting git repository will be less than useful.
> And that's where the narrow clone comes in handy...

Right, narrow clone gives them an excuse to do it.  Ergo we should
not have narrow clone. ;-)