From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:51:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102011647000.8580@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=KUpYJBRMp9ti0h+g6a0iTw4D113rTgfTpR8C4@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Shawn Pearce wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 09:11, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Narrow/Subtree clone is still just an idea, but can pack cache support
> > be made to resumable initial narrow clone too?
> 
> This would be very hard to do.  We could do cached packs for a popular
> set of path specifications (e.g. Documentation/ if documentation only
> editing is common), but once we start getting random requests for path
> specifications that we cannot predict in advance and pre-pack we'd
> have to fall back to the normal enumerate code path.

Also... people interested in Narrow clones are likely to be shallow 
clone users too, right?


Nicolas