Re: on subtree checkout

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, David Symonds wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Johannes Schindelin 
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > But I agree with others that you should think about sane 
> > implementations of rebase/merge with partial checkouts.
> 
> I, too, was shortly going to attempt a partial checkout/clone 
> implementation. The intended context of my implementation was similar to 
> the KDE scenario in that you might only care about /pkgA and /pkgB, so 
> changes to /pkgC are usually irrelevant and independent to your 
> work-flow, so I was planning to assume a simplistic "theirs" merge 
> strategy for /pkgC, etc.

That might work for the people who have partial checkouts.  But I see a 
lot of problems looming there: just imagine a documenter rebased on top of 
'master', and _then_ on top of a branch by another documenter, which is 
newer with respect to documentation, but older with respect to the code.

It is _really_ easy to break code if you have no intention to test the 
result of a merge, _especially_ so when it is a "theirs" strategy.

Ciao,
Dscho