Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2016, #02; Mon, 12)

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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Otherwise I'd prefer to drop it---at this point, the series is merely
"just because we can", not "because we need it to further improve this
or that".

Oh, I thought that this was meant as a starting point for anybody
interested in playing with resumable clones or with easing server loads.

It started as such, but the effort stalled and nobody seems to be
taking it further.  I do not know it is clear it would be a good
starting point at this point.  Perhaps it is.