From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: restriction of pulls Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:45:31 +0000 Message-ID: <200702091645.33384.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200702091149.12462.duelli@melosgmbh.de> <200702091619.23058.andyparkins@gmail.com> <45CCA301.4060504@dawes.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rogan Dawes , Johannes Schindelin , Christoph Duelli To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 09 17:50:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFYwz-00019V-IG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:50:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946657AbXBIQqS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:46:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946639AbXBIQp4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:45:56 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:55117 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946667AbXBIQpj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:45:39 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so827848uga for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:45:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=fo6MsPAHinhw3kM7i1R42bq+mZN4jwJ4RwwCWbNiD1y9KAAlRWCRvmR2jHc+hktHpM/FuVGtjVMrlrcr8CUISj5oFmIBogKFh2FZl27cZUqAEKwLkfMspyQgTpP1xUq2VV6Ib1lJlPjCxbZ3fPjcIeUK78VCgraJtGRaYhkbY7Q= Received: by 10.66.242.20 with SMTP id p20mr11444554ugh.1171039537546; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from 360run094l ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m1sm4443834ugc.2007.02.09.08.45.34; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:45:35 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <45CCA301.4060504@dawes.za.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday 2007 February 09 16:36, Rogan Dawes wrote: > Please note that my suggestion does NOT imply allowing partial checkins > (or if it does, it was not my intention) My apologies then; I did misunderstand. > > In every way that matters you can do a partial checkout - I can pull any > > version of any file out of the repository. However, it should certainly > > not be the case that git records that fact. > > Why not? If you only want to modify that file, does it not make sense > that you can just check out that file, modify it, and check it back in? Sorry - what I meant was that it shouldn't record that you checked out revision 74 of that file and retain a link from the current version to that old version. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com