Re: [QUESTION] Selective fetch possible?

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Rogan Dawes ha scritto:
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> I think that one should not *expect* to be able to complete merges with 
> only a partial checkout, though. It *may* work in cases where there are 
> no conflicts, but I think it would be a perfectly valid error path to 
> fail if there is a conflicting merge in a part of the tree that has not 
> been checked out.
> 
> So, for a user working on partial trees, they would be able to modify 
> their partial tree, and check in their changes, but merges would have to 
> be done by someone with a complete checkout. For the given examples 
> where partial trees make sense (documentation workers), this seems like 
> a reasonable compromise.

I think this is what every reasonable developer should have in mind
when he's working on just a project subset :). And I also think,
this is not a valid reason for forbidding/not implementing such a
partial (or subtree) checkout.


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