On 5/6/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > It means that for a merge or checkout involving stuff we "don't have",
> > it's trivial to know we are missing, and so we can  attempt a fetch of
> > the missing objects or tell the user how to request them them before
> > retrying.
> >
> > And in any case commits and trees are lightweight and compress well...
>
> Commit maybe, but is this based on a hard fact?

No hard facts here :( but I think it's reasonable to assume that the
trees delta/compress reasonably well, as a given commit will change
just a few entries in each tree.

I might try and hack a shallow local clone of the kernel and pack it
tightly to see what it yields.

cheers,



martin
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