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Re: Notes on supporting Git operations in/on partial Working Directories

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2006, 18:55 UTC
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A Large Angry SCM wrote:
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> There is no fundamental reason Git can not support partial 
> checkouts/working directories. In fact, there is no fundamental reason 
> Git can not support operations on partial (sparse?) repositories in both 
> space (working content/state, etc.) and time (history); it's just a 
> matter of record keeping[*1*]. That isn't how the Linux kernel 
> developers want to use their VCS but it _is_ how others want to use
> theirs.

There is perhaps not much trouble with partial checkouts, but there is problem with partial _commits_, at least for snapshot based SCM (as opposed to patchset based SCM). 

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. A Large Angry SCMSep 14, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceSep 14, 2006
  3. A Large Angry SCMSep 14, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2006
  5. A Large Angry SCMSep 14, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2006
  7. A Large Angry SCMSep 15, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2006
  9. A Large Angry SCMSep 17, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiSep 17, 2006
  11. A Large Angry SCMSep 17, 2006
  12. Jakub NarebskiSep 17, 2006
  13. A Large Angry SCMSep 17, 2006

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