From: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:13:10 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611072009220.2601@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <7v8ximwrm3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> [pu]
>
>  Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
>  of 'master' although I haven't done so yet.  As he said
>  himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
>  such a feature to raise hands.

I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand it to be 
(the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work normally from 
there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes reporting 'that's part of 
the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) consider my hand raised.

there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a project 
as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the full history (even 
with the good compression that a git pack provides, it's still a significant 
amount of disk space and download time for large projects)