From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:54:21 GMT Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070325203901.GB12376@spearce.org> Hi, On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Matthieu Moy wrote: > > Eric Lesh writes: > > > > > .gitlink is for a lightweight checkout of a branch into a separate > > > directory on the local filesystem. > > > > I think it's a pitty to restrict yourself to _local_ filesystem. There > > are tons of cases where you have a fast, non-NFS, access to a machine > > and would like to host your repository there. > > > > That said, I suppose removing this restriction moves the solution from > > the category "quick and efficient hack" to something much harder. > > Yes. But there's another project on the ideas list that addresses > that (``Lazy Clone''). It is quite a bit more difficult than the > .gitlink idea as the implementation requires a network protocol > client implemented somewhere near the read_sha1_file interface. Not only that. You'd have to change the way read_sha1_file() is called to allow fetching more than one object at a time. Otherwise this will be so slow as to be unusable. That's basically the reason why I changed my mind, and preferred shallow clones over lazy clones. Ciao, Dscho