Hi, On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote: > [a nice summary about why the index should know the sparse checkout > prefix] Thanks. > Also, I don't know if git supports this right now, but I can imagine > situations where you'd want to have more than one index (and > associated working trees) sharing the exact same .git folder. It is. And I already mentioned it. Note that it can make sense to work on an index only, without ever touching a working directory. For example, I do that a lot when importing projects that use "tarball+patches" for version control. Ciao, Dscho -- 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