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Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
...
>> [*4*] In git, there is no inherent server vs client or upstream
>> vs downstream relationship between repositories.
> 
> Here an importaant distiction must be made. A "publishing" repo cannot
> be sparse. A sparse repo probably cannot be cloned from.

With the use of "placeholder" objects; neither one of these assertions
is true.