Re: [PATCH 00/17] Narrow clone v3 (was subtree clone)

> Hi,
>
> 2010/9/5 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>> I'll describe differences between this series and Elijah's one [1].
>> I think it's more interesting. Changes from v2 [2] will follow later.
>
> So, I downloaded your patches and even made sure to sort them
> appropriately to fix the order, but I'm getting conflicts trying to
> apply them (on top of current pu).  What version did you base them on?

>> Things that won't work:
>>
>>  - Shell scripts that use "git write-tree"
>
> Yeah, write-tree didn't work in mine either; I had to make it throw an
> error.  But wouldn't your idea to make a tree object (referenced for
> sha1sums outside the sparse/narrow paths) part of the index allow even
> write-tree to work?

>>  - only send commits that have changes in narrow area and graft it at
>>   client side
>
> After reviewing more of your changes, and replacing various patches of
> mine with yours, this is fairly high on my priority list as well
> (whereas fsck & prune are a bit lower).  Maybe we can discuss ideas on
> tackling this when we start working on it.  I've got some rough
> initial ideas (though I have no idea if they'll pan out); I'll see if
> I can write some of them up in the next day or two.