Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It would be nice I think to be able to have remote alternatives,... > > Yup, I think I've mentioned that one as one of "the mostly > unimplementable but would be very nice to have crazy wishlist > items" some time ago. What people would want is not a "shallow" > clone, but a "lazy" clone, and in the ideal world that would > obviously be a nice thing to have. I think that it should be only "commit-lazy", i.e. downloading whole trees, subtrees, and objects pointed by tags, only not following the parent links of commits; perhaps also other links to commits (branches, tags, tag objects). -- 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