Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2008, #03; Tue, 14)

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2008, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0810150454g572f6147w6a61d770ba28e808@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wsq7rt5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 10/15/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>  [Stuck Topics]
>
>  * nd/narrow (Wed Oct 1 11:04:09 2008 +0700) 9 commits
>   - grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area
>   - checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.
>   - Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse
>    checkout
>   - ls-files: Add tests for --sparse and friends
>   - update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update
>    CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
>   - update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options
>   - ls-files: add options to support sparse checkout
>   - Introduce CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
>   - Extend index to save more flags
>
>  Recently updated with a repost.  Shawn says he's been too swamped at
>  day-job to actively review the series.  There has been some discussion on
>  list about it so its not stalled, but it needs more eyeballs.

Just a bit of update. I'm still working on the second half. Code change is even more than this, so I will wait until the first half gets reviewed and accepted before sending the rest.

BTW, in the first half, unpack_trees()-related commands may refuse to work if there is orphaned/stale entries in working directory (verify_*() functions still look at working directory no matter whether entries are no-checkout). Those entries are troublesome anyway so encouraging people to clean them out is, IMHO, a good idea, rather than fixing unpack_trees() to ignore them.

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Duy