Here's an idea for a git feature. (Or perhaps this is already
possible and I just don't see it.)
It would be nice to be able to completely expunge a file or delta from
a private part of an archive ("private" meaning not yet published to
others).
Here's my use case. I have some unit tests for my program, and I
added some input and output for the tests to my git archive. Now I'm
having second thoughts, as these files can be quite large, and I'm
realizing what this implies with respect to git. Even the smallish
test cases I checked in are 5-10MB, which is way larger than the
codebase, and I'm not sure it makes sense to drag all of this around
in the git archive. (Maybe it would be appropriate to put them in a
parallel archive?)
Anyway, I realized that hacking the archive this way isn't very
elegant, but maybe others would find it useful. It seems like the
basic technique of git-rebase could be applied here.
Even if the archive is already public, I suppose it might occasionally
be useful to be able to (say) split the archive by subtrees, and
simply have everyone cut over.
Mike
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