Re: [PATCH] rev-list: add "--full-objects" flag.

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Jul 11, 2005, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <m1irzh74m0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507101517370.17536@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> The current intelligent fetch currently has a problem that it cannot
>> be used to bootstrap a repository.  If you don't have an ancestor
>> of what you are fetching you can't fetch it.
>
> Sure you can.
>
> See the current "git clone". It's actually quite good, it's a pleasure to 
> use now that it gives updates on how much it has done.
>
> Just do
>
> 	git clone src dest

Sorry, somehow I just missed that, and then I noticed just a little before you sent out your email.

I'm having the worst time putting together a mental model of how git works, and the documentation is spotty enough that it hasn't been helpful. So I am wading through the code. It seems every time I turn a corner there is another rough spot.

I guess I was expecting to pull from one tree into another unrelated tree. Getting a tree with two heads and then be able to merge them together.

A couple of questions.

1) Does git-clone-script when packed copy the entire repository
   or just take a couple of slices of the tree where you have
   references?

2) Is there a way for a pack to create deltas against objects
   that are not in the tree?  For a dumb repository making incremental
   changes this is ideal.

Eric