From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sean Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:02:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45340713.6000707@utoronto.ca> <45345AEF.6070107@utoronto.ca> <4535345C.6090905@utoronto.ca> <20061021185825.GC29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aaron Bentley , Linus Torvalds , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 21 21:02:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbM7F-0000r0-3q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:02:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422792AbWJUTCh (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:02:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422793AbWJUTCh (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:02:37 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp08.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.168]:38936 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP08.CEZ.ICE") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422792AbWJUTCg (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:02:36 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [65.93.43.81] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Received: from linux1.attic.local ([65.93.43.81]) by BAYC1-PASMTP08.CEZ.ICE over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:11:17 -0700 Received: from guru.attic.local ([10.10.10.28]) by linux1.attic.local with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbLB3-0002EI-VE; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:02:33 -0400 To: Jan Hudec Message-Id: <20061021150233.c29e11c5.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20061021185825.GC29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.4; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Oct 2006 19:11:18.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[AFADC4E0:01C6F544] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:58:25 +0200 Jan Hudec wrote: > In bzr this was already discussed and the storage supports so called > "ghost" revisions, whose existence is known, but not their data. There > are even repositories around that contain them (created by converting > data from arch), but to my best knowledge there is no user interface to > create branches or checkouts with partial data. In Git the same functionality can be achieved with so called shallow- clones. Unfortunately, they've only been discussed and not yet implemented. Sean