From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:38:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Partial Clone garbage collection?
Message-ID: <20191030203833.GD29013@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <43646191572459422@myt3-4825096bdc88.qloud-c.yandex.net>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 09:17:02PM +0300, без имени wrote:

> > Are there any plans to add a --filter parameter to git gc as well,
> > that would be able to prune past history of objects and convert them
> > back into pack promises?
> 
> This operation will change the hash, and hence the history. I tried to
> draw attention to a specific trick:

I don't think this is quite the same thing. Simon is just talking about
the partial-clone system.  The files are still mentioned in history, but
the client does not store the matching blobs themselves. Instead, it can
fetch them on-demand from a remote repository.

-Peff