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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: sparse fetch, was Re: [PATCH 08/12] git-clone: support --path
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > As a user, I would expect "sparse clone" to also be sparse on the 
> > fetching. That is, to not even bother fetching tree objects that we are 
> > not going to check out. But that is a whole other can of worms from 
> > local sparseness, so I think it is worth saving for a different series.
> 
> I think this is not even worth of a series.  Sure, it would have benefits 
> for those who want sparse checkouts.  But it comes for a high price on 
> everyone else:

I agree there are a lot of issues. I am just thinking of the person who
said they had a >100G repository. But I am also not volunteering to do
it, so I will let somebody who really cares about it try to defend the
idea.

-Peff