From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:14:12 GMT
Subject: Narrow checkouts, was Re: [PATCH] Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703030112380.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vvehjchsp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This is off-topic, but I am having this nagging feeling that we may want 
> to revisit the ignorestat stuff to ignore more than what it currently 
> does.  For example, if we make it to not even care if the path is 
> missing from the working tree, I think it would help working in a 
> narrowly checked out repository.

I was thinking the same, when I heard that request, but was not able to 
find time to do it. Maybe somebody else wants to jump in and help?

Ciao,
Dscho