Jakub Narebski wrote:
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).
By "partial commit" I take it you mean a commit with only partial
information about the new (content) state? If so, the missing
information about the new state can be assumed to have not changed from
the previous recorded state (commit).
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