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Re: clone breaks replace

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2011, 21:59 UTC
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<7v7hehae2s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<20110106213338.GA15325@burratino>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Therefore if you want clients to be able to choose between a minimal
> history and a larger one to save bandwidth, it has to work like this
>
>  - to get the minimal history, fetch _without_ any replacement refs
>  - to get the full history, fetch the replacement refs on top of that.
>
> because an additional reference can only increase the number of
> objects to be downloaded.
Very nicely and clearly put.  Can we have this somewhere in the docs?
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  1. Phillip SusiJan 6, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederJan 6, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2011
  4. Phillip SusiJan 7, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2011
  6. Stephen BashJan 7, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2011
  8. Phillip SusiJan 7, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2011
  10. Phillip SusiJan 7, 2011
  11. Jeff KingJan 7, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2011
  13. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2011
  15. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  16. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  17. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  18. Christian CouderJan 11, 2011
  19. Phillip SusiJan 8, 2011
  20. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  21. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  22. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
  23. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  24. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
  25. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
  26. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  27. Johannes SixtJan 11, 2011
  28. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  29. Johannes SixtJan 11, 2011
  30. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
  31. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  32. Phillip SusiJan 12, 2011
  33. small downloads and immutable history (Re: clone breaks replace)Jonathan Nieder, Jan 14, 2011
  34. Phillip SusiJan 15, 2011

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