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Subject: Re: Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)
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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. ;-)