From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Notes on supporting Git operations in/on partial Working Directories
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:55:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eek5l4$kaa$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 450D9847.4080308@gmail.com
A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> There is no fundamental reason Git can not support partial
> checkouts/working directories. In fact, there is no fundamental reason
> Git can not support operations on partial (sparse?) repositories in both
> space (working content/state, etc.) and time (history); it's just a
> matter of record keeping[*1*]. That isn't how the Linux kernel
> developers want to use their VCS but it _is_ how others want to use
> theirs.
There is perhaps not much trouble with partial checkouts, but there is
problem with partial _commits_, at least for snapshot based SCM (as opposed
to patchset based SCM).
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-17 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 19:05 Notes on supporting Git operations in/on partial Working Directories A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-14 19:21 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-14 20:08 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-14 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-14 20:19 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-15 2:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-15 18:15 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-17 10:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-17 18:47 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-17 18:55 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-09-17 20:01 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-17 20:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-17 21:11 ` A Large Angry SCM
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