On 11/7/08, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Tim Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> wrote:
>  > Hey guys,
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>  [...]
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>  > The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags,
>  > commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using
>  > something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow
>  > and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such
>  > as committing and merging.
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> A related use case could be to remove a blob from a repo but being
>  able to work normally with it, similar to:
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>  http://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSFeatureObliterate

Maybe another use case: encrypted blobs (those are generally
unavailable until corrected password is given, so they are "holes" in
checkout/clone). It could be used to store sensitive content (in $HOME
for example)
-- 
Duy