Re: [PATCH] builtin-clone: Implement git clone as a builtin command.

From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 23:38 UTC
Message-ID: <1197416286.7552.4.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712111549490.5349@iabervon.org>

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 15:59 -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 
> > Ok, don't flame me, I know this isn't appropriate at the moment with
> > stabilization for 1.5.4 going on, but I just wanted to post a heads up
> > on this work to avoid duplicate effort.  It's one big patch at this point
> > and I haven't even run the test suite yet, but that will change.
> 
> Is that why you misspelled Junio's email address? :)

Hehe, yeah, do not mess with maintainers in release mode :)

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> Also as a heads-up, I've got a builtin-checkout that I've got passing all 
> the tests (plus a few to test stuff I originally hadn't implemented). This 
> mostly involved correcting the "interesting" states that unpack_trees() 
> can leave the index in memory when it returns and figuring out how the 
> merge code works. I can send it off for review and testing to people who 
> are interested and don't have other things they should be doing instead.

Thanks, that's useful, I was already considering what to do next. I wouldn't mind having a look, but maybe it's better to not discuss new features on the list at this point. I appreciate the heads up though.

cheers, Kristian