From: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
To: "Tim Ansell" <mithro@mithis.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git and Media repositories....
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:19:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0811070519qc54369vf0da3bc28182460a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225655428.11693.10.camel@vaio>
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Tim Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
[...]
>
> The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags,
> commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using
> something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow
> and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such
> as committing and merging.
>
A related use case could be to remove a blob from a repo but being
able to work normally with it, similar to:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSFeatureObliterate
Santi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-07 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-02 19:50 Git and Media repositories Tim Ansell
2008-11-03 6:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-03 9:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-07 13:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-07 13:19 ` Santi Béjar [this message]
2008-11-09 4:58 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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