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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Hi,

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> 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.

As I wrote a long time ago already, I think the correct approach would be 
to reuse the code for the core.ignoreStat feature.

But I agree with others that you should think about sane implementations 
of rebase/merge with partial checkouts.

Ciao,
Dscho