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Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by vm-mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 347f0d98 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:01:25 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de, peff@peff.net, me@ttaylorr.com, johncai86@gmail.com, newren@gmail.com, christian.couder@gmail.com, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com, jonathantanmy@google.com, karthik.188@gmail.com, Derrick Stolee , Derrick Stolee Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] backfill: add --sparse option Message-ID: References: <19a8efebbad7f414e3ef3fdca612dc1fcb835f25.1733515638.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19a8efebbad7f414e3ef3fdca612dc1fcb835f25.1733515638.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 08:07:17PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Derrick Stolee > > One way to significantly reduce the cost of a Git clone and later fetches is > to use a blobless partial clone and combine that with a sparse-checkout that > reduces the paths that need to be populated in the working directory. Not > only does this reduce the cost of clones and fetches, the sparse-checkout > reduces the number of objects needed to download from a promisor remote. > > However, history investigations can be expensie as computing blob diffs will s/expensie/expensive Patrick