Re: on subtree checkout

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

söndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Jakub Narebski:
> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:
> 
> > söndagen 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
> > quite reasonable in for example Eclipse, where there are hundreds of
> > plugins all listed at the top level, but you only need a checkout
> > for those that you actually want to change. KDE would be another
> > example where you want to mention multiple roots.
> 
> IMHO both in case of Eclipse plugins, and KDE modules/apps/whatever
> it would be much better to use submodules support than partial
> checkouts.

400 submodules... noway.

-- robin