From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:40:17 GMT
Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
Message-ID: <7vr5cj49vi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110111053653.GB10094@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Sure, I think that is a sane way for the user to think about it, but do
> we actually support multiple views? I thought replacement objects were
> all or nothing.

It is not implausible for a long running large project to restart their
history from a physical root commit every year, stiching the year-long
segments together at their ends with replacements, to make a default clone
to get a year's worth of the most recent history while allowing people to
get more by asking, no?

Of course, if you trust shallow-clones, you do not have to do that kind of
history surgery ;-).