Re: on subtree checkout

From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2008, 02:30 UTC
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20802251830p47c6de60je97a31cb34bc3105@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802260156350.3322@eeepc-johanness>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> 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.

I, too, was shortly going to attempt a partial checkout/clone implementation. The intended context of my implementation was similar to the KDE scenario in that you might only care about /pkgA and /pkgB, so changes to /pkgC are usually irrelevant and independent to your work-flow, so I was planning to assume a simplistic "theirs" merge strategy for /pkgC, etc.

Dave.