From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #03; Sun, 15) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:26:23 -0800 Message-ID: <7vtywvb9hs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vtywwm6i4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Weseloh X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 16 01:26:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N9pQV-0006lr-83 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:26:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752329AbZKPA02 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752226AbZKPA01 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:27 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:45460 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752152AbZKPA01 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:27 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600C89EF7D; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:30 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=AdNVAQBAX2EaaggkpLi5e20rKZI=; b=bvL9QBwJ3lZBF1oAXnp78NA pLAc4PvRsCQxRxQntQfSrQhBvDaY+JCcKblUv7eL5Gbdl858AnsYJLALAFBIVcYJ pE6awG+OqZAINesDgBEr/Ui2NNzVLj3mnIF6J2Ek17pl7YCA6PMTOVrTIR7N2b0A L0Q2zyOobEdTQux9Ma+Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=yfOOajqwdZyFqSNKryOPP0ao0zCjmO8LNZ0NiRk7QP/xKDZ4X /H05nuj/aAfhHWnUmylIkg6zP4c20qli/9Bg3ENgIuVjQV8qTDYb93OWcJbyiQNG YWQj+IE5VEW7EtlcVe7+U3tVYN7e7uo0jybpcPhe3xT/Pa7rwYRzquP4yU= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2AD9EF7B; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 457C19EF7A; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:26:24 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AE550B84-D246-11DE-93BA-EF34BBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Peter Weseloh writes: > Does that mean this feature will not make it into 'master' any time soon? It does not mean anything about this _feature_, but it does mean this particular _implementation_ is not likely to. > Having the ability to do sparse checkouts only of the repo sounds like a > way out. There is a big difference between (a) a feature is desirable and (b) a particular implementation of that feature does things right. The change in the topic is very intrusive and I am hesitant to merge it into even 'next'. Before considering inclusion to 'next', it does not matter that much if a topic realizes the feature as it advertises, but it does matter a lot if it breaks things for people who do not need the feature. While 'pu' has carried this topic for quite a long time, we haven't heard much success report from folks like you with the need for the feature if this implementation worked well for them without breaking things. I am not convinced that it won't regress fundamental things for the common codepaths when "sparse" is not used, and the latest update patch posted to the list (I do not think I picked it up) seemed very likely to regress things for the normal codepath. > Another question: What's the timeline for 1.7.0? I couldn't find anything > about it neither here nor in the wiki. When it is ready. But it is likely that there won't be 1.6.7.