On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> But usually the very first commit in a pack is huge as it typically >> isn't delta compressed (a delta chain has to start somewhere). And this >> first commit will roughly represent the same size as a tarball for that >> commit. And if you don't get at least that first commit then you are >> screwed. Or if you don't get a complete second commit when deepening a >> clone you are still screwed. > > Elijah's recent work on "rev-list --objects -- pathspec" [1] may help > split a commit into many parts that can be sent separately. thank you nguyen, will take a look later in the day at that. much appreciated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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