From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:56:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] built-in tar-tree and remote tar-tree
Message-ID: <e4let3$17u$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060519214318.38240.qmail@web25910.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Sven Ekman wrote:

> Is there a simple way to retrieve a single object or a
> list of objects _without_ any of their parents? If so
> one could retrieve the wanted commit and the
> corresponding tree and parse it on the client side to
> retrieve its descendents and commits.  If so, the
> number of roundtrips would be roughly proportional to
> the depth of the trees, which would probably still be
> acceptable.

Perhaps alternates file which points to _remote_ git repository, 
leaving all unused objects at remote directory, and needing constant
net access to said remote repository for almost all operations?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland