From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 17:38:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Remote git-cat-file?
Message-ID: <7vu07acanv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5c3c5$i47$1@sea.gmane.org>

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.