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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Sparse checkout
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:38:14 +0100 (BST)
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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