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Re: Git and Media repositories....

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SBSanti Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date
Nov 7, 2008, 13:19 UTC
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On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Tim Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
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> The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags,
> commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using
> something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow
> and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such
> as committing and merging.
>

A related use case could be to remove a blob from a repo but being able to work normally with it, similar to:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSFeatureObliterate
Santi
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Message 5 of 6 in “Git and Media repositories....”
  1. Tim AnsellNov 2, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 3, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiNov 7, 2008
  5. Santi BéjarNov 7, 2008
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 9, 2008

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