From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:46:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C
Message-ID: <7vd30rh9uo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87lifgct3j.fsf@centaur.cmartin.tk>

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).