From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:19:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Git and Media repositories....
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0811070519qc54369vf0da3bc28182460a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1225655428.11693.10.camel@vaio>

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Tim Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>

[...]

>
> 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