From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: restriction of pulls Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:38 +0000 Message-ID: <200702100959.40401.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200702091149.12462.duelli@melosgmbh.de> <200702091645.33384.andyparkins@gmail.com> <45CCB041.1000500@dawes.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rogan Dawes , Johannes Schindelin , Christoph Duelli To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 10 11:02:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFp44-0006SJ-3r for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:02:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753088AbXBJKCg (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:02:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753090AbXBJKCg (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:02:36 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.229]:49454 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753088AbXBJKCf (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:02:35 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so1050431nze for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:02:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=LDp8Ds0qWdelqNakTFDNilxuT95NrhjxrXQvdW0qpZqxSB38Cxowmq/000kDnrgqBHZe+e7uakjl2xuz2Z9wLausG/50zczmqSw6cuS+AHSeYDmL6OR00+1GYNWYSb2pmIbcqm6sN2NaiFgt66csnvqxc4uNfdfTTiUI7mS8TT8= Received: by 10.65.254.5 with SMTP id g5mr4015945qbs.1171101753752; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from grissom.internal.parkins.org.uk ( [84.201.153.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f12sm4603659qba.2007.02.10.02.02.30; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:02:30 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <45CCB041.1000500@dawes.za.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday 2007, February 09, Rogan Dawes wrote: > Well, the new commit would have the previous commit as its direct > parent, even though it may not have all the blobs to support it. This I agree with; this seems like the way that a partial checkout would be supported. As you say - there would be no need to have the blobs available for objects you aren't altering. Unfortunately, it seems like it would be a huge amount of work to actually do. Andy -- Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE andyparkins@gmail.com