Re: Lazy clone ideas

Jakub Narebski <jnareb <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I've started new thread for lazy clone ideas,
> splitting from "Figured out how to get Mozilla into git"

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I like the lazy clone idea, I think, I said that earlier.

> > This would probably require Eric Biederman's "direct access to blob" 
> > patches, I guess, in order to be feasible.

Are those patches allowing the git: protocol to request a list of objects directly? (Like my "remote git-cat-file" request?)

What's the status of the patch?

> And it would need place to store URI from where to doenload objects
> on-demand: perhaps 'remote alternatives'?

Yep, that would be the next step. Having direct access to blobs would be needed first though.

    Elrond