Hi, On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeff King wrote: > 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. I never said that there were no benefits. I argued that there are too many _downsides_ to those who _don't_ benefit. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
