On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Sam Vilain <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There have also been designs at various times for sparse check–outs; ie > check–outs where you don't check out the root of the repository but a > sub–tree. There is a sparse checkout feature in git (hopefully from one of the designs you mentioned) and it can checkout subtrees. The only problem in this case is it maintains full index. So it only solves half of the problem (stat calls), reading/writing large index just slows everything down. -- 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