[GSoC] Partial Cloning

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 05:13, Rafael Goncalves Martins
<rafael at rafaelmartins.eng.br> wrote:
> - Nallow clones

Not sure if this is a typo: it's called 'narrow'. :)

>    I think that the best approach here is implement the clonning of subtrees,
>    storing the absolute path for the root of the subtree somewhere in .hg, and
>    making Mercurial look for the subtree as part of a full "virtual" main tree,
>    but ignoring the differences between the "virtual" tree and the files in the
>    directories outside the subtree. This implementation should be hard, but it's
>    the easiest way, IMO. I can be completelly wrong though.

Are we agreed on keeping the whole manifest?

And what are you going to about (allow for) hg merge?

Cheers,

Dirkjan