From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:59:10 GMT
Subject: Re: on subtree checkout
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802260156350.3322@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0802240134i46e276ajfe83071e0b18ce61@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> I'm going to implement subtree checkout. The plan is to save "index
> prefix" in GIT_DIR/prefix and update git commands to use index prefix
> when accessing the index. If I'm heading a wrong way, stop me now.

As I wrote a long time ago already, I think the correct approach would be 
to reuse the code for the core.ignoreStat feature.

But I agree with others that you should think about sane implementations 
of rebase/merge with partial checkouts.

Ciao,
Dscho