Re: clone breaks replace

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Therefore if you want clients to be able to choose between a minimal
> history and a larger one to save bandwidth, it has to work like this
>
>  - to get the minimal history, fetch _without_ any replacement refs
>  - to get the full history, fetch the replacement refs on top of that.
>
> because an additional reference can only increase the number of
> objects to be downloaded.

Very nicely and clearly put.  Can we have this somewhere in the docs?
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