On 7/24/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Second, I think you can simply special case .git* files (.gitignore, > .gitattributes, .gitmodules), and always check them out for all > intermediate directories (unless configured otherwise, of course). > So for example if you have the following directory structure: > > A/.gitignore > A/a > A/B1/.gitignore > A/B1/b > A/B2/.gitignore > A/B2/c > > and you are checking out only subdirectory 'B1' (and all files in it; > if subdirectories are checked out recursively it depends on > configuration), and if for example there is .gitignore in every > directory, then checked out tree would look like this: > > A/.gitignore > A/B1/.gitignore > A/B1/b > > The ability to do this is one of advantages of 'sparse' checkout over > 'subtree' checkout. Or teach git to use index version of those files. Or collect all those files, combine them and put the result to .git/info/exclude (and similar places). Anyway well organized repos won't have this problem. Checking some files out as read-only (like this case) may be interesting. Though I do not how much complicated it can be. -- 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
