On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:43:43 -0700 Jonathan Tan <jonathanta...@google.com> wrote:
> For those interested in partial clones and/or missing objects in repos, > I've updated my original partialclone patches to not require an explicit > list of promises. Fetch/clone still only permits exclusion of blobs, but > the infrastructure is there for a local repo to support missing trees > and commits as well. > > They can be found here: > > https://github.com/jonathantanmy/git/tree/partialclone2 I've pushed a new version: https://github.com/jonathantanmy/git/tree/partialclone3 Besides some small changes as requested by comments on the GitHub repository, I've also updated the code to do the following: - clarified terminology - in particular, I've tried to avoid "promised", only using "promisor object" to denote objects that the local repo knows that the promisor remote has, whether the local repo has it or not - restored bulk checkout functionality (so now you can clone with --blob-max-bytes=0) - a fix to fetch-pack to restore a global flag after it uses it, so commands like "git log -S" still work (but to test this, I used --blob-max-bytes=200000 with the Git repository, because batch fetching is not implemented for commands like these) In its current form, the code is already useful for situations like: - a large repository with many blobs in which the client only needs to checkout, at most, and does not need to search through history locally, and - a repository with a few large blobs, where the client still can search through history as long as the client is online
