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Re: Remote git-cat-file?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 28, 2006, 17:38 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> It would be nice I think to be able to have remote alternatives,...

Yup, I think I've mentioned that one as one of "the mostly unimplementable but would be very nice to have crazy wishlist items" some time ago. What people would want is not a "shallow" clone, but a "lazy" clone, and in the ideal world that would obviously be a nice thing to have.

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