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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:33:31 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Geert Bosch wrote:

> 
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 16:51, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > Also... people interested in Narrow clones are likely to be shallow 
> > clone users too, right?
> 
> Not necessarily. Many corporate repositories are huge (caused by
> the concept of 1 central repository with everything in it) and have
> tons of crud (like marketing materials, media-heavy powerpoint
> presentations).  Here you really want a narrow clone (such as the
> sources of the project you're working on), but don't mind having
> the whole history.

OK.  I was asking just to see if the cache pack concept might have to 
cater for that case too.  but let's wait for proper narrow clone support 
first.


Nicolas