From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:38:04 GMT
Subject: Re: How to mark a complete sub-directory assume-unchanged/skip-worktree?
Message-ID: <DAC4EA00279649D6B3F4DB1B3D662BA6@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DV2uCQbfCP=Mf2qajVAtpTZvKKeCS2H4_o6LA3B96QAA@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Duy Nguyen" <pclouds@gmail.com>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> 
> wrote:
>> Have there been previous attempts to look at marking sub-dirs as
>> --skip-worktree, or some other sentinel value for the missing tree?
>
> I dealt with this by creating partial index, that only contains
> entries for interested subtrees. The index also stores the base tree
> SHA-1, so write-tree can still create (full) new trees correctly from
> partial index.
> -- 
> Duy

Is there a particular bit of code I'd be worth studying for the partial 
index example to see how well it might fit my ideas?

--
Philip