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Re: on subtree checkout

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2008, 10:23 UTC
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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:
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> söndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:
> > 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.
> 
> Make it multivalue as having more than one directory checked out is
> quite reasonable in for example Eclipse, where there are hundreds of
> plugins all listed at the top level, but you only need a checkout
> for those that you actually want to change. KDE would be another
> example where you want to mention multiple roots.

IMHO both in case of Eclipse plugins, and KDE modules/apps/whatever it would be much better to use submodules support than partial checkouts.

IMHO the best example of partial checkout workflow would be documentation writers or translators. You cannot put docs in separate submodule, as you want to have whole-tree change+documantation update commits.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 24, 2008
  2. Robin RosenbergFeb 24, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 24, 2008
  4. Robin RosenbergFeb 24, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 24, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiFeb 24, 2008
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 24, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiFeb 24, 2008
  9. Matthieu MoyFeb 24, 2008
  10. Robin RosenbergFeb 24, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 26, 2008
  12. David SymondsFeb 26, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinFeb 26, 2008

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