Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:18:20 -0700

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
...
>> [*4*] In git, there is no inherent server vs client or upstream
>> vs downstream relationship between repositories.
> 
> Here an importaant distiction must be made. A "publishing" repo cannot
> be sparse. A sparse repo probably cannot be cloned from.

With the use of "placeholder" objects; neither one of these assertions
is true.