From: Christian Jaeger Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:30:03 GMT Subject: Re: Feedback outside of the user survey Message-ID: <48FCC01B.8030709@jaeger.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <48FCB87B.1080207@jaeger.mine.nu> Christian Jaeger wrote: > 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.