Re: VCS comparison table

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:30:27 +0200 (CEST)
Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

It would also make things slow as hell. How do you deal with something 
like annotate in such a setup?

Some commands like annotate might not make any sense in such a set up.

But one way to get the same (perhaps even better) feature into git 
would be to support shallow clones, in which case even annotate would
continue to work even if somewhat crippled by the lack of a complete
history.

Sean