From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Subject: Re: partial checkouts Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:51:46 +1000 Message-ID: References: <200905231401.11651.chanika@gmail.com> <18071eea0905240857x2433e7a1x5776def3209afbf5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Chani , git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Adam X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 25 03:53:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8PNi-0007xq-HG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 03:53:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754079AbZEYBwH convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2009 21:52:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753862AbZEYBwG (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2009 21:52:06 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.249]:43524 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753184AbZEYBwE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2009 21:52:04 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so6538328and.1 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:52:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=EABsCb8J6/eWhsErSZMmeJA6m5QkL4Td3YOaPudJUvw=; b=ds6aHHVx6RsBUDra2IAMG0BMGfwmU9T93rXcDNt+yi5Idvu/tFx/FNojzxDfy6xg4M ituJw03O+3a4VZq75GOXwjwyIAlJWH3lLWYxMQT0LmPGsYZXxQK1eMs8+Uk3cIkRFjz6 inIgSXws+/CfiWPa2usI4iqkH7OzvjIEpZ+sk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=k0I7TRwEopOLhJBC600oEvMca1HBVCK2ts73IFy4sLlbcMUPZRsYD/O0KFBGY4Llzr eRPSa0U6CLMirS8DKaSmfm9/1T2SSKV/4YdvGA4wp3pz6aETUDHnc5Wf4UU/dcFDsFow DWhE01AXog1KTmlbRcedc2dTVSZ4h0DpZlLyA= Received: by 10.100.126.15 with SMTP id y15mr11048459anc.14.1243216326097; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:52:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18071eea0905240857x2433e7a1x5776def3209afbf5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Thomas Adam = wrote: > 2009/5/24 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy : >> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Chani wrote: >>> checking out the entire git repo isn't really feasible, because onc= e 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 fea= sible, >>> either - they sound kinda awkward to work with, and I can imagine l= ots 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=3Dshortlog;h=3Drefs/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. =C2=A0Do = you > have any plans to try and get it included in mainline? =C2=A0ISTR the= re was > some more work needed to be done on it before then. It was pulled off because of big, intrusive and not well-designed patch= es. 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. --=20 Duy