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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Diff format in packs
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:01:03 +0200
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> In another mail, you asked for a solution for the initial 700MB download. 
> How about doing it like Linux-2.6, namely have a clean cut, and for those 
> who want, they can load the historical repo, too, and graft it onto the 
> current one?

Perhaps that would be incentive to finally make "lazy clone"/"shallow clone"
support in git.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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