Re: [PATCH] git-bundle: Make thin packs

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

	> Since a bundle doesn't make any sense *anyway* unless you have 
	> the prerequisites at the other end, I think you might as well do 
	> thin packs. That will cut down on the bundle size a *lot* for 
	> the common cases.

	Well, I disagree on the blanket "*anyway*". Shallow fetches are no 
	longer possible from these bundles (at least after this commit 
	_and_ ":/git-bundle: avoid packing" which I just sent out).

Does anybody actually use shallow clones in real life?

When I did the numbers a long time ago, the shallow clone didn't actually 
help much, because it meant that there were no deltas. Which meant that 
you got 1% of the history for 60% of the price of all history, and the 
shallow thing didn't really seem to make much sense.

I guess that for something with a really long history, you'd get 0.001% of 
the history for 10% of the price, and maybe it makes sense then.

		Linus