From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:01:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Diff format in packs
Message-ID: <eanfp9$37c$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608011248530.17230@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> In another mail, you asked for a solution for the initial 700MB download. 
> How about doing it like Linux-2.6, namely have a clean cut, and for those 
> who want, they can load the historical repo, too, and graft it onto the 
> current one?

Perhaps that would be incentive to finally make "lazy clone"/"shallow clone"
support in git.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git