Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > For those interested in partial clones and/or missing objects in repos, > I've updated my original partialclone patches to not require an explicit > list of promises. Fetch/clone still only permits exclusion of blobs, but > the infrastructure is there for a local repo to support missing trees > and commits as well. > ... > Demo > ==== > > Obtain a repository. > > $ make prefix=$HOME/local install > $ cd $HOME/tmp > $ git clone https://github.com/git/git > > Make it advertise the new feature and allow requests for arbitrary blobs. > > $ git -C git config uploadpack.advertiseblobmaxbytes 1 > $ git -C git config uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant 1 > > Perform the partial clone and check that it is indeed smaller. Specify > "file://" in order to test the partial clone mechanism. (If not, Git will > perform a local clone, which unselectively copies every object.) > > $ git clone --blob-max-bytes=100000 "file://$(pwd)/git" git2 > $ git clone "file://$(pwd)/git" git3 > $ du -sh git2 git3 > 116M git2 > 129M git3 > > Observe that the new repo is automatically configured to fetch missing objects > from the original repo. Subsequent fetches will also be partial. > > $ cat git2/.git/config > [core] > repositoryformatversion = 1 > filemode = true > bare = false > logallrefupdates = true > [remote "origin"] > url = [snip] > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > blobmaxbytes = 100000 > [extensions] > partialclone = origin > [branch "master"] > remote = origin > merge = refs/heads/master The above sequence of events make quite a lot of sense. And the following description of how it is designed (snipped) is clear enough (at least to me) to allow me to say that I quite like it.
