On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/5/24 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Chani <chanika@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> checking out the entire git repo isn't really feasible, because once KDE >>> finishes switching to git that'll mean checking out all of KDE. >>> I don't think that turning every doc folder into a submodule is feasible, >>> either - they sound kinda awkward to work with, and I can imagine lots of >>> people getting confused and messing them up... >> >> If you don't mind cloning the entire git repo (which may be quite >> large in KDE case, I guess), then you may want to try "sparse >> checkout". The patch series is available as a topic branch "tp/sco" in >> this branch: >> >> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/pclouds.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/inst >> >> Or I can send the patch series to you. It lets you specify what part >> of the tree you want to checkout. > > I recall following this series when you first announced it. Do you > have any plans to try and get it included in mainline? ISTR there was > some more work needed to be done on it before then. It was pulled off because of big, intrusive and not well-designed patches. http://mid.gmane.org/20081128192033.GF23984@xxxxxxxxxxx I may submit it again when I get code insertions down to ~500 lines or something like that ;-) Anyway you could always help by giving more use cases to test against the current design. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html