From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:38:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Sparse clones (Was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] upload-pack: support subtree packing)
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(corrected reply context, sorry)

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/28 Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>:
>> 2010/7/27 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>:
>>> 0) Sparse clones have "all" commit objects, but not all trees/blobs.
>>>
>>> Note that "all" only means all that are reachable from the refs being
>>> downloaded, of course.  I think this is widely agreed upon and has
>>> been suggested many times on this list.
>>
>> I think downloading all commit objects would require very low
>> bandwidth and storage space, so it should be harmless.
> >
> > In fact, I have a pretty strong impression that also downloading
> > all *tree* objects would be fine too.
>
> Here you go. A pack with only commits and trees of git.git#master is
> 15M. With blobs, it is 28M. Git is not a typical repo with large blobs
> though.
> --
> Duy
>



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Duy