Re: [Monotone-devel] partial pull #2 - gaps instead of a single horizon

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Rob Schoening wrote:
> For instance, what if you simply deferred the full sync until *after* the
> user got his workspace?  That is, don't worry about trying to solve the
> problem of syncing repositories that look like swiss cheese.  But do 
> allow a
> user to get the first slice without copying the whole block....

How is that different from partial pull? We *need* that first slice to 
do a checkout, but only having a first slice means having a partial 
repository...

Perhaps you are thinking about something like transferring a tar archive 
of the requested revision and having a workspace which is not based on a 
monotone repository at all (sort of)? But for which monotone would only 
know how to fetch the repository and upgrade that workspace to a fully 
monotone repo based workspace?

For me, that simply looks too much like partial pull. Except that it 
adds another transferring format and another kind of workspace. Too much 
unneeded work, IMO.

Regards

Markus