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Re: Remote git-cat-file?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 28, 2006, 18:34 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> It would be nice I think to be able to have remote alternatives,...
> 
> Yup, I think I've mentioned that one as one of "the mostly
> unimplementable but would be very nice to have crazy wishlist
> items" some time ago.  What people would want is not a "shallow"
> clone, but a "lazy" clone, and in the ideal world that would
> obviously be a nice thing to have.

I think that it should be only "commit-lazy", i.e. downloading whole trees, subtrees, and objects pointed by tags, only not following the parent links of commits; perhaps also other links to commits (branches, tags, tag objects).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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  1. ElrondMay 27, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 28, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 28, 2006
  4. ElrondMay 28, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiMay 28, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiMay 28, 2006

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