Re: [PATCH 00/10] RFC Partial Clone and Fetch

[ankostis <ankostis@gmail.com>]

Dear Jeff

I read most of the valuable references you provided
but could not find something along the lines describing inline.


On 8 March 2017 at 19:50,  <git@jeffhostetler.com> wrote:
> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
>
>
> [RFC] Partial Clone and Fetch
> =============================
>
> This is a WIP RFC for a partial clone and fetch feature wherein the client
> can request that the server omit various blobs from the packfile during
> clone and fetch.  Clients can later request omitted blobs (either from a
> modified upload-pack-like request to the server or via a completely
> independent mechanism).

Is it foreseen the server to *decide* with partial objects to serve
And the cloning-client still to work ok?

My case in mind is storing confidential files in Git (server)
that I want to publicize them to partial-cloning clients,
for non-repudiation, by sending out trees and commits alone
(or any non-sensitive blobs).

A possible UI would be to rely on a `.gitattributes` to specify
which objects are to be upheld.


Apologies if I'm intruding with an unrelated feature requests.
  Kostis