From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:59:23 GMT
Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
Message-ID: <7v7hehae2s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110106213338.GA15325@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?