From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sparse checkout
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