From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:39:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD PATCH 00/32] subtree clone v2
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say in "ancestor" tree, we have
>
> t1/f0
> t2/t3/f0
>
> In "you" tree, we have
>
> t1/f0
> t2/t3/f0
> t2/t3/f1
>
> In "upstream" tree, we have
>
> t1/f0
> t2/t3/f0
> t2/t3/f2
>
> The narrow tree is t1, so we the trees we have are toplevel tree and

How would you get the "you" tree?  Since you don't have the data for
t2 or t2/t3, there's no way you can create and commit this tree.