# sparse/narrow checkout

4 messages from 2009-02-21 to 2009-02-23. Participants: ddrowley3@juno.com, Miklos Vajna, Dale Rowley.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17942

## ddrowley3@juno.com, 2009-02-21 21:46

Subject: sparse/narrow checkout
Message-ID: <20090221.134629.25151.0@webmail20.dca.untd.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090221.134629.25151.0%40webmail20.dca.untd.com

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I noticed a few months ago that work was being done on providing capability for sparse/narrow checkout. I was looking forward to using this feature, but I haven't seen any mention of it for a while. Is it still in the works? If so, is there an estimate of when it will be released?

Dale

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## Miklos Vajna, 2009-02-21 22:04

Subject: Re: sparse/narrow checkout
Message-ID: <20090221220420.GR4371@genesis.frugalware.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090221220420.GR4371%40genesis.frugalware.org
In-Reply-To: <20090221.134629.25151.0@webmail20.dca.untd.com>

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On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:46:29PM +0000, "ddrowley3@juno.com" <ddrowley3@juno.com> wrote:
> I noticed a few months ago that work was being done on providing
> capability for sparse/narrow checkout. I was looking forward to using
> this feature, but I haven't seen any mention of it for a while. Is it
> still in the works? If so, is there an estimate of when it will be
> released?

Search back a bit in the archives:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104204
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103987

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## Dale Rowley, 2009-02-22 04:20

Subject: Re: sparse/narrow checkout
Message-ID: <loom.20090222T031452-912@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20090222T031452-912%40post.gmane.org
In-Reply-To: <20090221220420.GR4371@genesis.frugalware.org>

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos <at> frugalware.org> writes:

> 
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:46:29PM +0000, "ddrowley3 <at> juno.com" <ddrowley3
<at> juno.com> wrote:
> > I noticed a few months ago that work was being done on providing
> > capability for sparse/narrow checkout. I was looking forward to using
> > this feature, but I haven't seen any mention of it for a while. Is it
> > still in the works? If so, is there an estimate of when it will be
> > released?
> 
> Search back a bit in the archives:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104204
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103987
> 

Yes, I gathered from those posts that work was being done. But I don't see this
feature in the latest stable release (1.6.1.3), so I was wondering whether it
has been abandoned or whether I should be more patient. This feature would be
useful to us, so I just wanted to make sure it hasn't fallen through the
cracks...

Dale

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## Miklos Vajna, 2009-02-23 18:15

Subject: Re: sparse/narrow checkout
Message-ID: <20090223181504.GJ4371@genesis.frugalware.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090223181504.GJ4371%40genesis.frugalware.org
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090222T031452-912@post.gmane.org>

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:20:09AM +0000, Dale Rowley <ddrowley3@juno.com> wrote:
> > Search back a bit in the archives:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104204
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103987
> > 
> 
> Yes, I gathered from those posts that work was being done. But I don't see this
> feature in the latest stable release (1.6.1.3), so I was wondering whether it
> has been abandoned or whether I should be more patient. This feature would be
> useful to us, so I just wanted to make sure it hasn't fallen through the
> cracks...

I'm afraid the previous.

Quoting http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/104639:

> Will drop shortly, but there may be some other fixes to CE_VALID, like
> nd/grep-assume-unchanged topic above, that we may want to resurrect.

And then it has been dropped indeed.

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