From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remote git-cat-file?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 14:00:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5c3c5$i47$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20060528T124835-757@post.gmane.org
Elrond wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org> writes:
>>
>> Just out of interest, why would you ever want to just look at a single
>> object?
[...]
>
> The other possible use for remote git-cat-file:
> It might be useful in shallow repos to selectively load objects "on demand".
> (In fact, I screwed my repo by trying to make it shallow.)
It would be nice I think to be able to have remote alternatives, loading
(downloading and saving) objects "on demand" ("lazy alternatives"). Not necessary
only with "shallow repo"/"shallow clone".
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-28 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-27 22:26 Remote git-cat-file? Elrond
2006-05-28 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-28 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-28 10:57 ` Elrond
2006-05-28 12:00 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-05-28 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-28 18:34 ` Jakub Narebski
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