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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sparse checkout
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:38:14 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807241736050.8986@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130807240922r733dce6aw8b123bbb28c9002@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> [a nice summary about why the index should know the sparse checkout 
>  prefix]

Thanks.

> Also, I don't know if git supports this right now, but I can imagine
> situations where you'd want to have more than one index (and
> associated working trees) sharing the exact same .git folder.

It is.  And I already mentioned it.  Note that it can make sense to work 
on an index only, without ever touching a working directory.

For example, I do that a lot when importing projects that use 
"tarball+patches" for version control.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-24 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-23 14:55 [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sparse checkout Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2008-07-23 15:38 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-23 16:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-23 16:21   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-23 16:55     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-24  8:27       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 12:42         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-24 13:29           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 13:44             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-24 13:50               ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 16:22                 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-24 16:38                   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-24 18:59                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-08-03 18:37       ` Jan Hudec
2008-08-03 20:48         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-04 12:29         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24  8:24 ` James Pickens
2008-07-24  9:00   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 17:59     ` James Pickens
2008-07-24 23:23       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 23:38         ` James Pickens
2008-07-24  9:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-24 10:58   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 20:01     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-24 23:21       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-25 14:53         ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-25  0:07       ` Johannes Schindelin

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