On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > > I'm going to implement subtree checkout. The plan is to save "index > > prefix" in GIT_DIR/prefix and update git commands to use index prefix > > when accessing the index. If I'm heading a wrong way, stop me now. > > As I wrote a long time ago already, I think the correct approach would be > to reuse the code for the core.ignoreStat feature. > > But I agree with others that you should think about sane implementations > of rebase/merge with partial checkouts. I, too, was shortly going to attempt a partial checkout/clone implementation. The intended context of my implementation was similar to the KDE scenario in that you might only care about /pkgA and /pkgB, so changes to /pkgC are usually irrelevant and independent to your work-flow, so I was planning to assume a simplistic "theirs" merge strategy for /pkgC, etc. Dave. - 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
