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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n]
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:48:41 -0800
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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.