Subject: Re: Remote git-cat-file?

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 14:00:21 +0200

Elrond wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org> writes:
>> 
>> Just out of interest, why would you ever want to just look at a single 
>> object?
[...]
>
> The other possible use for remote git-cat-file:
> It might be useful in shallow repos to selectively load objects "on demand".
> (In fact, I screwed my repo by trying to make it shallow.)

It would be nice I think to be able to have remote alternatives, loading
(downloading and saving) objects "on demand" ("lazy alternatives"). Not necessary
only with "shallow repo"/"shallow clone".

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland