On vr, 2015-06-12 at 13:26 +0200, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: > AFAIU git stores the contents of a repo as a sequence of patches in the > .git metadata folder. It does not, it stores full snapshots of files. [I've cut the example, as it's not how git works] > 1. `git clone --depth 1` would be way faster, and without the need of > on-demand compressing of packfiles in the server side, correct me if I'm > wrong? You're wrong due to the misunderstanding of how git works :) > 2. `git clone` would be able to allow a "fast operation, complete in the > background" mode that would allow you to download the first snapshot of > the repo very quickly, so that the user would be able to start working > on his working directory very quickly, while a "background job" keeps > retreiving the history data in the background. This could actually be a good thing, and can be emulated now with git clone --depth=1 and subsequent fetches in the background to deepen the history. I can see some value in clone doing this by itself, first doing a depth=1 fetch, then launching itself into the background, giving you a worktree to play with earlier. -- Dennis Kaarsemaker http://www.kaarsemaker.net -- 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