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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.
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Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> writes:

> 2005/11/21, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
>> Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > ... But since I used grafting to "cut"
>> > my light repo and .git/info/grafts file is not copied during
>> > push/pull/clone operations it's not going to work. Is it a scheme that
>> > could work ?
>>
>> If you tell your downloaders that your repository is incomplete
>> and they need to have at least up to such and such commits from
>> another repository, they should be able to slurp from you.

I was not talking about _your_ case specifically.  If you happen
to have based your partial history on top of a single commit
then the set of "such and such commits" might be only one, but
you could for example clone from Linus tip, merge in a couple of
jgarzik branch heads, put your own commits on top of them and
then cauterize your history, stopping at those foreign commits.
In such a case you obviously need to tell others where you
chopped your history off.