Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sparse checkout

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 24, 2008, 16:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807241736050.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130807240922r733dce6aw8b123bbb28c9002@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> [a nice summary about why the index should know the sparse checkout 
>  prefix]

Thanks.

> Also, I don't know if git supports this right now, but I can imagine
> situations where you'd want to have more than one index (and
> associated working trees) sharing the exact same .git folder.

It is. And I already mentioned it. Note that it can make sense to work on an index only, without ever touching a working directory.

For example, I do that a lot when importing projects that use "tarball+patches" for version control.

Ciao, Dscho