On 5/6/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > It means that for a merge or checkout involving stuff we "don't have", > it's trivial to know we are missing, and so we can attempt a fetch of > the missing objects or tell the user how to request them them before > retrying. > > And in any case commits and trees are lightweight and compress well... Commit maybe, but is this based on a hard fact?
No hard facts here :( but I think it's reasonable to assume that the trees delta/compress reasonably well, as a given commit will change just a few entries in each tree. I might try and hack a shallow local clone of the kernel and pack it tightly to see what it yields. cheers, martin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html