From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:59:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7hehae2s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110106213338.GA15325@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Thu\, 6 Jan 2011 15\:33\:38 -0600")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Therefore if you want clients to be able to choose between a minimal
> history and a larger one to save bandwidth, it has to work like this
>
> - to get the minimal history, fetch _without_ any replacement refs
> - to get the full history, fetch the replacement refs on top of that.
>
> because an additional reference can only increase the number of
> objects to be downloaded.
Very nicely and clearly put. Can we have this somewhere in the docs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-06 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-06 21:00 clone breaks replace Phillip Susi
2011-01-06 21:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-06 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-01-07 19:43 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-07 20:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07 21:15 ` Stephen Bash
2011-01-07 21:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07 21:44 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-07 21:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07 22:09 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-07 22:09 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 22:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-11 5:36 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-11 17:50 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 17:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-11 18:03 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 19:32 ` Christian Couder
2011-01-08 0:43 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 5:47 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 6:52 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-11 15:37 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 18:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-11 18:42 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 15:24 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 17:39 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 19:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-11 19:51 ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 20:00 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-11 20:22 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 20:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-12 0:59 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-14 20:53 ` small downloads and immutable history (Re: clone breaks replace) Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-15 5:27 ` Phillip Susi
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