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Re: restriction of pulls

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2007, 16:45 UTC
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<200702091645.33384.andyparkins@gmail.com>
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<45CCA301.4060504@dawes.za.net>
On Friday 2007 February 09 16:36, Rogan Dawes wrote:
> Please note that my suggestion does NOT imply allowing partial checkins
> (or if it does, it was not my intention)
My apologies then; I did misunderstand.
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> > In every way that matters you can do a partial checkout - I can pull any
> > version of any file out of the repository.  However, it should certainly
> > not be the case that git records that fact.
>
> Why not? If you only want to modify that file, does it not make sense
> that you can just check out that file, modify it, and check it back in?

Sorry - what I meant was that it shouldn't record that you checked out revision 74 of that file and retain a link from the current version to that old version.

Andy
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  1. Christoph DuelliFeb 9, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 9, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2007
  4. Rogan DawesFeb 9, 2007
  5. Andy ParkinsFeb 9, 2007
  6. Rogan DawesFeb 9, 2007
  7. Andy ParkinsFeb 9, 2007
  8. Rogan DawesFeb 9, 2007
  9. Andy ParkinsFeb 10, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2007
  11. Rogan DawesFeb 12, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinFeb 12, 2007
  13. Rogan DawesFeb 12, 2007

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