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Re: Partial tree export and merging

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HVHeiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de>
Date
Sep 25, 2008, 14:36 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:
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> That could be done with (under-developing) sparse checkout. Basically
> language team's people do "git clone --sparse-checkout='*.loc:*.html'
> your-repo.git". Then they only have *.loc and *.html files in working
> directory. When they commit, all other files are unchanged. Developers
> merge to have updated *.log/html as usual.
Where is that option ? Or are you suggesting me to implement it ?
> I have a question though: is language team allowed to checkout/modify
> files other than *.loc and *.html?

Well in an ideal world they should only have access to the "language" files. But it is not crucial for us if they get access to the source. Its more an issue of user friendlyness. The revision control which is in place at the moment does allow them to selectively check out those files.

Heiko
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  1. Heiko VoigtSep 24, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceSep 24, 2008
  3. Heiko VoigtSep 24, 2008
  4. Shawn O. PearceSep 24, 2008
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 24, 2008
  6. Heiko VoigtSep 25, 2008
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