[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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