From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:32:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Configurable callbacks for missing objects (we Re: upload-pack: support subtree packing)
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPVzBN_KaxMpY9NoP+M_WdErh7fT0oyPWGky7m@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100727185127.GD25124@worldvisions.ca>

2010/7/28 Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>:
> But I've been thinking that a really elegant way to solve the problem could
> be to have a user-configurable "get the missing objects" callback.  If any
> part of git that *needs* an object can't find it, it calls this callback to
> go try to retrieve it (either just that one object, or it can request to
> download the object recursively, ie. everything it points to).
>
> Then shallow clones could just auto-fill themselves if you really need a
> prior version, for example.

I think that's what lazy clone does in [1]

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/73117/focus=73935
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Duy