From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: Feature request: thin checkout Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:44:47 +0200 Organization: eudaptics software gmbh Message-ID: <46726D9F.C4801AA@eudaptics.com> References: <20070615085346.8027.qmail@science.horizon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 15 12:45:20 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 1Hz9Iq-0005pU-R5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:45:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752457AbXFOKpK (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:45:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752333AbXFOKpJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:45:09 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60304 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752229AbXFOKpH (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:45:07 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz9Id-0003Kr-T6 for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:45:03 +0200 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:45:03 +0200 Received: from J.Sixt by cm56-163-160.liwest.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:45:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm56-163-160.liwest.at X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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