Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sparse checkout

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
> > On 7/24/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  Second, I think you can simply special case .git* files (.gitignore,
>  > >  .gitattributes, .gitmodules), and always check them out for all
>  > >  intermediate directories (unless configured otherwise, of course).
>  > >  So for example if you have the following directory structure:
>  > >
>  > >   A/.gitignore
>  > >   A/a
>  > >   A/B1/.gitignore
>  > >   A/B1/b
>  > >   A/B2/.gitignore
>  > >   A/B2/c
>  > >
>  > >  and you are checking out only subdirectory 'B1' (and all files in it;
>  > >  if subdirectories are checked out recursively it depends on
>  > >  configuration), and if for example there is .gitignore in every
>  > >  directory, then checked out tree would look like this:
>  > >
>  > >   A/.gitignore
>  > >   A/B1/.gitignore
>  > >   A/B1/b
>  > >
>  > >  The ability to do this is one of advantages of 'sparse' checkout over
>  > >  'subtree' checkout.
>  >
>  > Or teach git to use index version of those files. Or collect all those
>  > files, combine them and put the result to .git/info/exclude (and
>  > similar places). Anyway well organized repos won't have this problem.
>  >
>  > Checking some files out as read-only (like this case) may be
>  > interesting. Though I do not how much complicated it can be.
>
>
> I think teaching git to use index version of .git* files (.gitignore,
>  .gitattributes, .gitmodules) would be much more work than adding
>  default rule that .git* files in leading directories are by default
>  checked out, just like leading directories are checked out.  This
>  would limit modifying git code, I think, and chances for errors.
>
>  Having "leading" directories and files read-only would be a good idea,
>  I think.
>
>  I don't understand the sentence "well organized repos won't have this
>  problem". I think well organized repos _would_ have this problem,
>  because of maintained and distributed top-level .gitignore and
>  .gitattributes.

>  P.S. I hope that 'sparse checkout' feature would be ready for 1.7.0
>
> --
>  Jakub Narebski
>  Poland
>