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Re: Notes on supporting Git operations in/on partial Working Directories

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2006, 20:01 UTC
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> 
>> There is no fundamental reason Git can not support partial 
>> checkouts/working directories. In fact, there is no fundamental reason 
>> Git can not support operations on partial (sparse?) repositories in both 
>> space (working content/state, etc.) and time (history); it's just a 
>> matter of record keeping[*1*]. That isn't how the Linux kernel 
>> developers want to use their VCS but it _is_ how others want to use
>> theirs. 
> 
> There is perhaps not much trouble with partial checkouts, but there is
> problem with partial _commits_, at least for snapshot based SCM (as opposed
> to patchset based SCM).

By "partial commit" I take it you mean a commit with only partial information about the new (content) state? If so, the missing information about the new state can be assumed to have not changed from the previous recorded state (commit).

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  1. A Large Angry SCMSep 14, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceSep 14, 2006
  3. A Large Angry SCMSep 14, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2006
  5. A Large Angry SCMSep 14, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2006
  7. A Large Angry SCMSep 15, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2006
  9. A Large Angry SCMSep 17, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiSep 17, 2006
  11. A Large Angry SCMSep 17, 2006
  12. Jakub NarebskiSep 17, 2006
  13. A Large Angry SCMSep 17, 2006

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