On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Tim Ansell <mithro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys, > [...] > > The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags, > commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using > something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow > and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such > as committing and merging. > A related use case could be to remove a blob from a repo but being able to work normally with it, similar to: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSFeatureObliterate Santi -- 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
