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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: thin checkout
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:44:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46726D9F.C4801AA@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070615085346.8027.qmail@science.horizon.com

linux@horizon.com wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to tell git-update-index and
> git-checkout index that certain directories are not in the working
> directory, but don't worry.  Just pretend they exist and match the index.
> 
> Then I could mark much of arch/* as "don't bother" and save a pile of
> disk space per working directory.

Currently, directories are not registered in the index. For this reason,
empty directories cannot be versioned. One day, will want to support
this, and for this purpose, directories must also be registered in the
index. Once this infrastructure is in place, the "don't bother" flag
will be a no-brainer, methinks.

-- Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-15  8:53 Feature request: thin checkout linux
2007-06-15  9:49 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-06-15 10:44 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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