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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