Re: Partial tree export and merging

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2008, 14:51 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0809250751x403a4b31vf05cdaba04563bbc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48DBA1DF.3050502@mahr.de>

On 9/25/08, Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de> wrote:

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> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:
>
> > That could be done with (under-developing) sparse checkout. Basically
> > language team's people do "git clone
> --sparse-checkout='*.loc:*.html'
> > your-repo.git". Then they only have *.loc and *.html files in working
> > directory. When they commit, all other files are unchanged. Developers
> > merge to have updated *.log/html as usual.
> >
>
>  Where is that option ? Or are you suggesting me to implement it ?

As I said, it is being developed. It should not be used in production environment yet but if you want to try, you can get it from here

http://repo.or.cz/w/git/pclouds.git in branch sparse-checkout

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> > I have a question though: is language team allowed to checkout/modify
> > files other than *.loc and *.html?
> >
>
>  Well in an ideal world they should only have access to the "language"
> files. But it is not crucial for us if they get access to the source. Its
> more an issue of user friendlyness. The revision control which is in place
> at the moment does allow them to selectively check out those files.

Thanks. Just wanted to know the scenario that sparse checkout could be used.

-- 
Duy