[GSoC] Partial Cloning

Peter Arrenbrecht peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 04:41:27 CDT 2010


On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 05:13, Rafael Goncalves Martins
>>    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?

That was my understanding.
-parren


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