Hi,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> If you pull, upload-pack will think you have *every* object depending on 
> every ref you have stored.

Ah, okay. That was the missing information, thanks.

> You only have two choices: you proposed code duplication, and yours truly 
> proposed data duplication.

Erm, if there are multiple places for parsing a grafts file, that needs 
to be addressed as well.

> As is known from good database design: a few redundancies here and there 
> are typically needed for good performance.

Sure, but only if you can "rebuild" all the redundant information reliably.

    Simon