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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:09:49AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> True.  What I meant by "interesting" is that two is reading from
> what one is writing.

Excellent point.  Given the potential for problems related to this
issue or to compressed representation, would it make sense to enable
partial transfers via a command-line option and leave the feature
disabled by default?

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