From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>, jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n]
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:48:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217164841.GH32487@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812171136250.30035@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > Its also not easy to
> > implement, which is why we've only been talking about it for years
> > and never actually seen a patch proposing to do it.
>
> A partial clone could possibly be turned into a shalow clone if at least
> the top commit is complete ...
But you of all people should know well that the top commit is also
a huge part of most clones. Getting that top commit can be 30-60%
of the repository itself. :-|
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-15 23:53 git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n] jidanni
2008-12-16 0:22 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-12-16 0:37 ` jidanni
2008-12-16 2:07 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-12-16 5:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-17 15:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-12-17 16:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-17 16:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-12-17 16:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-17 16:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-12-17 16:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-16 0:43 ` Jeff King
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