From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
Cc: "Tim Ansell" <mithro@mithis.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git and Media repositories....
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:58:41 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0811082058i2d0dab9et3de216f7bdb8036d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0811070519qc54369vf0da3bc28182460a@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/7/08, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:
> 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
Maybe another use case: encrypted blobs (those are generally
unavailable until corrected password is given, so they are "holes" in
checkout/clone). It could be used to store sensitive content (in $HOME
for example)
--
Duy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-09 5:00 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
2008-11-09 4:58 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
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