Re: Sparse clones (Was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] upload-pack: support subtree packing)

2010/7/28 Avery Pennarun [off-list ref]:

2010/7/27 Elijah Newren [off-list ref]:

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0) Sparse clones have "all" commit objects, but not all trees/blobs.

Note that "all" only means all that are reachable from the refs being
downloaded, of course.  I think this is widely agreed upon and has
been suggested many times on this list.

I think downloading all commit objects would require very low
bandwidth and storage space, so it should be harmless.

Here you go. A pack with only commits and trees of git.git#master is
15M. With blobs, it is 28M. Git is not a typical repo with large blobs
though.
-- 
Duy