From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: on subtree checkout Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:53:57 +0100 Message-ID: <200802241153.58009.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <200802241100.00107.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" , "git mailing list" To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 24 11:54:50 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 1JTEVN-0004PL-KL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:54:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751458AbYBXKyM convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:54:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751439AbYBXKyL (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:54:11 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:12406 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbYBXKyK (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:54:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561C0802677; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:54:07 +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 FrKMpLh0LYiN; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:54:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.2] (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CCA80264D; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:54:06 +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=F6ndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Jakub Narebski: > Robin Rosenberg writes: >=20 > > s=F6ndagen den 24 februari 2008 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy: > > > I'm going to implement subtree checkout. The plan is to save "ind= ex > > > prefix" in GIT_DIR/prefix and update git commands to use index pr= efix > > > when accessing the index. If I'm heading a wrong way, stop me now= =2E > >=20 > > Make it multivalue as having more than one directory checked out is > > quite reasonable in for example Eclipse, where there are hundreds o= f > > 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. >=20 > 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