Re: [PATCH] built-in tar-tree and remote tar-tree

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] skrev:

Sorry for sending a crapoid that does not even
compile.  I ran format-patch while on a wrong 
branch.

Tonight's "pu" will have a fixed up one for 
people who are interested to play with.

Hi Junio,

Thanks for your answer. I'm looking forward to try the
remote tar-tree at the weekend.  While this will
definitely make it much more easy to grab single
revisions out of a git tree, it only solves a part of
the issue I was trying to address. If one wanted a
simple snapshot of the source, it's usually easier to
download a tarball. 

The great thing about having the kernel source in a
git repository is that it lets me upgrade the kernel
source tree in place with a single simple command. No
firing up a browser, downloading and applying a patch.
It is also braindead easy to maintain a set of local
patches across different kernel versions. Git makes
all this quick and easy.

Is there a simple way to retrieve a single object or a
list of objects _without_ any of their parents? If so
one could retrieve the wanted commit and the
corresponding tree and parse it on the client side to
retrieve its descendents and commits.  If so, the
number of roundtrips would be roughly proportional to
the depth of the trees, which would probably still be
acceptable.

Greetings, Sven