On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:58:25 +0200

Jan Hudec  wrote:
> In bzr this was already discussed and the storage supports so called

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> "ghost" revisions, whose existence is known, but not their data. There

> are even repositories around that contain them (created by converting

> data from arch), but to my best knowledge there is no user interface to

> create branches or checkouts with partial data.

In Git the same functionality can be achieved with so called shallow-

clones.  Unfortunately, they've only been discussed and not yet

implemented.
Sean

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