Sven Ekman wrote: > Is there a simple way to retrieve a single object or a > list of objects _without_ any of their parents? If so > one could retrieve the wanted commit and the > corresponding tree and parse it on the client side to > retrieve its descendents and commits. If so, the > number of roundtrips would be roughly proportional to > the depth of the trees, which would probably still be > acceptable. Perhaps alternates file which points to _remote_ git repository, leaving all unused objects at remote directory, and needing constant net access to said remote repository for almost all operations? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : 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