On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:58:25 +0200
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:

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> In bzr this was already discussed and the storage supports so called
> "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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