On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > As a user, I would expect "sparse clone" to also be sparse on the > > fetching. That is, to not even bother fetching tree objects that we are > > not going to check out. But that is a whole other can of worms from > > local sparseness, so I think it is worth saving for a different series. > > I think this is not even worth of a series. Sure, it would have benefits > for those who want sparse checkouts. But it comes for a high price on > everyone else: I agree there are a lot of issues. I am just thinking of the person who said they had a >100G repository. But I am also not volunteering to do it, so I will let somebody who really cares about it try to defend the idea. -Peff -- 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
