From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: on subtree checkout Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:59:59 +0100 Message-ID: <200802241100.00107.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "git mailing list" To: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 24 11:00:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTDf6-00084h-0t for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:00:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753106AbYBXKAL convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:00:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753002AbYBXKAL (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:00:11 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:12260 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752774AbYBXKAJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:00:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CAE802677; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:00:07 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eqNpEGpfvQyb; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:00:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.2] (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A1F8006BB; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:00:07 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: s=C3=B6ndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy: > 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. Make it multivalue as having more than one directory checked out is qui= te reasonable in for example Eclipse, where there are hundreds of plugi= ns all listed at the top level, but you only need a checkout for those that yo= u actually want to change. KDE would be another example where you want = to mention multiple roots. -- robin