Re: partial checkouts

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/24 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Chani <chanika@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> checking out the entire git repo isn't really feasible, because once KDE
>>> finishes switching to git that'll mean checking out all of KDE.
>>> I don't think that turning every doc folder into a submodule is feasible,
>>> either - they sound kinda awkward to work with, and I can imagine lots of
>>> people getting confused and messing them up...
>>
>> If you don't mind cloning the entire git repo (which may be quite
>> large in KDE case, I guess), then you may want to try "sparse
>> checkout". The patch series is available as a topic branch "tp/sco" in
>> this branch:
>>
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/pclouds.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/inst
>>
>> Or I can send the patch series to you. It lets you specify what part
>> of the tree you want to checkout.
>
> I recall following this series when you first announced it.  Do you
> have any plans to try and get it included in mainline?  ISTR there was
> some more work needed to be done on it before then.

It was pulled off because of big, intrusive and not well-designed patches.

http://mid.gmane.org/20081128192033.GF23984@spearce.org

I may submit it again when I get code insertions down to ~500 lines or
something like that ;-) Anyway you could always help by giving more
use cases to test against the current design.
-- 
Duy