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Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Feb 3, 2011, 21:33 UTC
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Geert Bosch wrote:
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> On Feb 1, 2011, at 16:51, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > Also... people interested in Narrow clones are likely to be shallow 
> > clone users too, right?
> 
> Not necessarily. Many corporate repositories are huge (caused by
> the concept of 1 central repository with everything in it) and have
> tons of crud (like marketing materials, media-heavy powerpoint
> presentations).  Here you really want a narrow clone (such as the
> sources of the project you're working on), but don't mind having
> the whole history.

OK. I was asking just to see if the cache pack concept might have to cater for that case too. but let's wait for proper narrow clone support first.

Nicolas
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Message 21 of 36 in “Features from GitSurvey 2010”
  1. Dmitry S. KravtsovJan 29, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederJan 29, 2011
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  5. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  6. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2011
  9. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  11. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  12. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  13. Shawn PearceFeb 2, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2011
  15. david@lang.hmFeb 2, 2011
  16. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  17. Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)Jonathan Nieder, Feb 3, 2011
  18. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  19. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
  20. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
  21. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  22. Tracking empty directoriesJonathan Nieder, Feb 1, 2011
  23. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  24. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  25. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  26. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  27. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
  28. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  29. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 2, 2011
  30. Kevin P. FlemingFeb 2, 2011
  31. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  32. big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010david@lang.hm, Feb 1, 2011
  33. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  34. Matthieu MoyFeb 1, 2011
  35. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
  36. Matthieu MoyFeb 1, 2011

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