From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:16:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects
Message-ID: <20060928201636.GA4386@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcyt81gn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:05:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Avoiding checking out parts of the project tree that you do not
> care about while you work on such a single large project is
> another interesting and useful area to think about, but I would
> say at that point it is not about subproject at all -- it is
> about working in a sparsely populated working tree of a single
> project.

Keep in mind that it might not be an attempt to avoid checking out part
of the tree, but rather importing part of the tree (the subproject) into
your repository at all (to save space, download time, etc). So unless
you're also proposing sparse repos, I think this still might be a
subproject issue.

-Peff