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Re: Feedback outside of the user survey

From
CJChristian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>
Date
Oct 20, 2008, 17:30 UTC
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<48FCC01B.8030709@jaeger.mine.nu>
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Christian Jaeger wrote:
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> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> Christian Jaeger wrote:
>>> Hm, not sure whether you mean to rescue the situation with rewritten 
>>> commits here -- but hell no, I certainly don't mean to have 
>>> different commit objects for different clones/checkouts.
>>>
>>
>> Then you'll be transferring all objects over the wire anyway
>
> Why? Again, care to differentiate between technical feasibility and 
> current implementation.
I think it was this detail:
> ... lazy cloning

which I have been leaving under the carpet in my previous mails; i.e. when doing merges, Git may need additional objects which haven't been fetched by just fetching the branches's subdirectory parts, so merges can't generally be done offline anymore. This is certainly a departure from the current idea; and if you don't want to depart from that, then yes, you'd need basically the whole database in advance or merges wouldn't be possible. So I think I understand why you said "Then you'll be transferring all objects over the wire anyway", you did assume that there would be no such thing as on-demand / lazy fetching of missing objects.

Christian.
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  1. Richard HartmannOct 16, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 16, 2008
  3. Richard HartmannOct 16, 2008
  4. Garry DolleyOct 16, 2008
  5. Richard HartmannOct 16, 2008
  6. Christian JaegerOct 16, 2008
  7. Garry DolleyOct 18, 2008
  8. Christian JaegerOct 18, 2008
  9. Andreas EricssonOct 20, 2008
  10. Christian JaegerOct 20, 2008
  11. Andreas EricssonOct 20, 2008
  12. Christian JaegerOct 20, 2008
  13. Andreas EricssonOct 20, 2008
  14. Christian JaegerOct 20, 2008
  15. Christian JaegerOct 20, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2008
  17. Christian JaegerOct 21, 2008

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