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Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 9, 2012, 16:46 UTC
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cmn@elego.de (Carlos Martín Nieto) writes:
> If you want to download it bit by bit, you can tell fetch to download
> particular tags. Doing this automatically for this would be working
> around a configuration issue for a particular server, which is generally
> better fixed in other ways.

As part of an upcoming "protocol update" discussion, we may want to include allowing "upload-pack" to accept a request for commit that is not at the tip of any ref.

E.g. "want refs/heads/master~*0.1" might ask "I know your entire history is very big; please give me only the one tenth of the oldest history during this round." (this is not a suggestion on how to do this at the UI level).

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  6. Carlos Martín NietoOct 9, 2012
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