On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 08:07:17PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

From: Derrick Stolee <redacted>

One way to significantly reduce the cost of a Git clone and later fetches is
to use a blobless partial clone and combine that with a sparse-checkout that
reduces the paths that need to be populated in the working directory. Not
only does this reduce the cost of clones and fetches, the sparse-checkout
reduces the number of objects needed to download from a promisor remote.

However, history investigations can be expensie as computing blob diffs will

s/expensie/expensive

Patrick