Re: sparse fetch, was Re: [PATCH 08/12] git-clone: support --path to do sparse clone

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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As a user, I would expect "sparse clone" to also be sparse on the 
fetching. That is, to not even bother fetching tree objects that we 
are not going to check out. But that is a whole other can of worms 
from local sparseness, so I think it is worth saving for a different 
series.

I think this is not even worth of a series.  Sure, it would have 
benefits for those who want sparse checkouts.  But it comes for a high 
price on everyone else:

I agree there are a lot of issues. I am just thinking of the person who 
said they had a >100G repository. But I am also not volunteering to do 
it, so I will let somebody who really cares about it try to defend the 
idea.

I never said that there were no benefits.  I argued that there are too 
many _downsides_ to those who _don't_ benefit.

Ciao,
Dscho