From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:15:04 GMT
Subject: Re: sparse/narrow checkout
Message-ID: <20090223181504.GJ4371@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090222T031452-912@post.gmane.org>

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:20:09AM +0000, Dale Rowley <ddrowley3@juno.com> wrote:
> > Search back a bit in the archives:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104204
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103987
> > 
> 
> Yes, I gathered from those posts that work was being done. But I don't see this
> feature in the latest stable release (1.6.1.3), so I was wondering whether it
> has been abandoned or whether I should be more patient. This feature would be
> useful to us, so I just wanted to make sure it hasn't fallen through the
> cracks...

I'm afraid the previous.

Quoting http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104639:

> Will drop shortly, but there may be some other fixes to CE_VALID, like
> nd/grep-assume-unchanged topic above, that we may want to resurrect.

And then it has been dropped indeed.