RFC: Shallow Cloning, Take 2

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:34:52PM +0200, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> Matt, folks,
> 
> I've been tinkering with shallow cloning again. This time around, I
> keep the entire changelog (as you suggested, Matt), but still prune
> the manifest and file logs.

Excellent summary, thanks. Frankly, both ways seem to have serious
shortcomings. It might actually be worth considering a possibility
I've been ruling out: falling back to a server when we hit a corner
case.

Let's give some thought to what a system without these issues (if it's
possible) would look like and if there's any way to get there from
here.

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