On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 04:36:19PM -0700, John Austin wrote: > > There's also the nascent "don't fetch all the blobs" work-in-progress > > clone mode which might be of interest to you: > > https://blog.github.com/2018-09-10-highlights-from-git-2-19/#partial-clones > > Yes! I've been pretty excited about this functionality. It drives a > lot of GVFS/VFS for Git under the hood. I think it's a great solution > to the repo-size issue.
Right, though this still subjects the remote copy to all of the difficulty of packing large objects (though Christian's work to support other object database implementations would go a long way to help this). Thanks, Taylor
