From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:28:52 GMT Subject: Re: Notes on supporting Git operations in/on partial Working Directories Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <450DA99F.8000009@gmail.com> A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: >> A Large Angry SCM wrote: >> >>> 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). > > By "partial commit" I take it you mean a commit with only partial > information about the new (content) state? If so, the missing > information about the new state can be assumed to have not changed from > the previous recorded state (commit). That of course assumes that 1) the whole state is recorded somewhere (perhaps in the repository); so the partial checkout saves space only if repository compress really well, 2) there are no merges outside checked out part. Is anybody working on "bind" header and subproject support? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git