From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Notes on supporting Git operations in/on partial Working Directories Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:55:12 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <4509A7EC.9090805@gmail.com> <7vu03a2po8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <4509B954.60101@gmail.com> <7v8xkl26kb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <450AEDBF.9050307@gmail.com> <7vvenm3h9f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <450D9847.4080308@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 17 20:55:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GP1nS-0006Cl-Or for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:55:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932364AbWIQSzM (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:55:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932367AbWIQSzL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:55:11 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58792 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932364AbWIQSzK (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:55:10 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GP1n2-00066S-6Y for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:54:52 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:54:52 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:54:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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