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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone: don't unpack objects
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:58:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7virvt441v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510191327560.3369@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:31:53 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> No, I think the unconditional --keep is fine for clone.
>
> What to do about incremental pulls is not as clear, but I think the clone 
> case is pretty much obvious these days.
>
> The main reason for unpacking was that packs used to be "strange". These 
> days, packs are arguably the _common_ thing.

OK, that makes sense. 

I'd move this 'unconditional keep' to clone-pack.  The --keep
flag becomes a no-op.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-19 12:43 [PATCH] git-clone: don't unpack objects Timo Hirvonen
2005-10-19 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-19 20:23   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-19 20:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 20:58     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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