From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:20:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] shallow clone
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601311518120.9824@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xsxa70o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> We need to realize that `upload-pack` that hears
> "have A, want B" is allowed to omit objects that appear in
> `ls-tree B` output but not in `ls-tree A`.  "have A" means not
> just "I have A", but "I have A and all of its ancestors", so
> just sending "have start_shallow" (or start_shallow^ for that
> matter) is not quite enough.

So how about adding a "have-single A" which would be translated to 
"git-rev-list ~A", which in turn would only mark the tree and its 
children, but not the parents?

Ciao,
Dscho