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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] bundle v3: the beginning
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 12:19:58 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 05:44:06PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Because this "external odb" essentially acts as a git alternate, we
> > would hit it only when we couldn't find an object through regular means.
> > Git would then make the object available in the usual on-disk format
> > (probably as a loose object).
> 
> This means git-gc (and all things that do rev-list --objects --all)
> would download at least all trees and commits? Or will we have special
> treatment for those commands?

Yes. To me, this was always about punting large blobs from the clones.
Basically the way git-lfs and other tools work, but without munging your
history permanently.

I don't know if Christian had other cases in mind (like the many-files
case, which I think is better served by something like narrow clones).

-Peff