A Large Angry SCM wrote: > There is no fundamental reason Git can not support partial > checkouts/working directories. In fact, there is no fundamental reason > Git can not support operations on partial (sparse?) repositories in both > space (working content/state, etc.) and time (history); it's just a > matter of record keeping[*1*]. That isn't how the Linux kernel > developers want to use their VCS but it _is_ how others want to use > theirs. There is perhaps not much trouble with partial checkouts, but there is problem with partial _commits_, at least for snapshot based SCM (as opposed to patchset based SCM). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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