From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:44:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/6] Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is available
Message-ID: <7v7hp2rcn8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201003232125.49933.j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> BTW, the real fix for this potentially problematic case is to teach 
> pack-objects to create a pack file for a shallow clone. Then we don't need 
> this instance of an async procedure.

I keep hearing "shallow clone" here, but doesn't "bundle -n 1" essentially
do something quite similar using pack-objects?  Do they make a call into
pack-objects in a different way, and if so can we update "clone" to mimic
how "bundle" drives pack-objects?