From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:03:27 GMT
Subject: Re: on subtree checkout
Message-ID: <m31w72d63a.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0802240134i46e276ajfe83071e0b18ce61@mail.gmail.com>

"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm going to implement subtree checkout. The plan is to save "index
> prefix" in GIT_DIR/prefix and update git commands to use index prefix
> when accessing the index. If I'm heading a wrong way, stop me now.

If I remember correctly previous trials to implement "partial
checkout" ("subtree checkout") feature, or at least discussions about
it, used index extension.

As far as I can see the problem lies in merging...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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