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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	"Dmitry S. Kravtsov" <idkravitz@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:33:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203213315.GD16391@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E0364BF-35CD-4797-BBAF-98A54D1F7F6E@adacore.com>

Geert Bosch wrote:

>                                           Some would rather
> spend 30+ days of CPU time to import an entire SVN repository with
> branch forests straight into git than considering organization.
> Of course the resulting git repository will be less than useful.
> And that's where the narrow clone comes in handy...

Right, narrow clone gives them an excuse to do it.  Ergo we should
not have narrow clone. ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-29 10:01 Features from GitSurvey 2010 Dmitry S. Kravtsov
2011-01-29 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 13:51   ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-01 15:52     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 16:33       ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-01 16:27     ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-01 17:05       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 21:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 21:44         ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 17:11       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 17:34         ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-01 21:51           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-02  0:26             ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-02  2:11               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-02  2:23                 ` david
2011-02-03 14:38             ` Geert Bosch
2011-02-03 17:39               ` Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010) Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-03 21:23                 ` Geert Bosch
2011-02-03 21:33                   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-02-03 21:38                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-03 21:33               ` Features from GitSurvey 2010 Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 17:28     ` Tracking empty directories Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 17:54       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 18:15         ` Ilari Liusvaara
2011-02-01 18:31           ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-01 19:09             ` Ilari Liusvaara
2011-02-01 18:35         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 19:03           ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-02  3:54             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-02 12:31               ` Kevin P. Fleming
2011-02-01 21:36     ` Features from GitSurvey 2010 Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 22:50     ` big files in git was: " david
2011-02-03  6:25       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 17:44   ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-01 18:42     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 20:23       ` Matthieu Moy

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