[Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

[Robert Wohlrab]

Ian Monroe wrote:
> > Who says that? You have _____aalllllll____ metadata. Only the blobs are
> > missing partially. So you can completely calculate the sha for your trees
> > and all your parent trees. And this means that you can also create
> > commits and tags and so on. All you need is there. You must only
> > calculate new sha sums for the stuff you changed... and you know that you
> > only change stuff in your narrow clone. This also means that you can push
> > and pull. You can even look at the logs. Only accessing a tree with
> > missing blobs isn't possible.
> 
> I was just going off of the GSoC description page.

Exactly. This page mentions that you can work with it:

It would accomplish this by downloading all of the commit and tree objects, 
which are generally small, but only the blobs that you ask for (or just 
getting the blobs when you need them). It would also allow you to do pushes 
back. 
-- 
Robert Wohlrab