From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:18:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone
Message-ID: <4501A5DC.609@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90609080015u56daae78u9d78584edae7fb72@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
...
>> [*4*] In git, there is no inherent server vs client or upstream
>> vs downstream relationship between repositories.
> 
> Here an importaant distiction must be made. A "publishing" repo cannot
> be sparse. A sparse repo probably cannot be cloned from.

With the use of "placeholder" objects; neither one of these assertions
is true.