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From: Jan Holesovsky <kendy@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:43:20 +0100
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Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
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Hi Jakub,

On Thursday 14 of February 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> >> What is the size of checkout, by the way?
> >
> > 2.4G
>
> That's huuuuge tree. Compared to that 1.6G (or 1.4G) packfile doesn't
> look large.
>
> I wonder if proper subdivision into submodules (which should encourage
> better code by the way, see TAOUP), and perhaps partial checkouts
> wouldn't be better solution than lazy clone. But it is nice to have
> long discussed about feature, even if at RFC stage, but with some code.

Yes, I'd love to see the OOo tree split into several parts, I've already 
proposed a division (http://www.nabble.com/OOo-source-split-td13096065.html), 
but it'll take some more time I'm afraid :-(

Regards,
Jan