On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Jonathan Tan <jonathanta...@google.com> wrote: > These patches are also available online: > https://github.com/jonathantanmy/git/commits/partialclone3 > > (I've announced it in another e-mail, but am now sending the patches to the > mailing list too.) > > Here's an update of my work so far. Notable features: > - These 18 patches allow a user to clone with --blob-max-bytes=<bytes>, > creating a partial clone that is automatically configured to lazily > fetch missing objects from the origin. The local repo also has fsck > working offline, and GC working (albeit only on locally created > objects). > - Cloning and fetching is currently only able to exclude blobs by a > size threshold, but the local repository is already capable of > fetching missing objects of any type. For example, if a repository > with missing trees or commits is generated by any tool (for example, > a future version of Git), current Git with my patches will still be > able to operate on them, automatically fetching those missing trees > and commits when needed. > - Missing blobs are fetched all at once during checkout.
Could you give a bit more details about the use cases this is designed for? It seems that when people review my work they want a lot of details about the use cases, so I guess they would also be interesting in getting this kind of information for your work too. Could this support users who would be interested in lazily cloning only one kind of files, for example *.jpeg?
