Subject: Re: git gc expanding packed data?

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:43:22 +0200

Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]> writes:

> If you do a clone using the git:// protocol and the server sends you 
> only the ref for the trunk branch,

A clone will fetch all branches from refs/heads/*.

> then it should send you only objects reachable from that branch.

Apparantly this does not work.  I'd guess the extra objects are needed
due to the delta compression.

Andreas.

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