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[rikki cattermole]

On 16/10/2020 12:00 PM, norm wrote:
> My apologies I stand corrected, I thought git had the interface to read 
> just all the metadata without pulling all the data.

When I last looked at it a few years ago, my statement was true.

After more git versions being released, it may no longer be true for a 
lot of use cases.

Either way, you still need the archive as well (which is a separate 
feature that is also optional, or was at one point). So you may end up 
with needing to clone it fully anyway.

I don't see a problem with checking out a repository to get the info + 
archive unless it is a big repo. So that would end up being our fallback 
anyway if you want non-supported providers.