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Petr Baudis wrote:

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>> this only makes sense if

>> you have a fast access to the repository (otherwise, you consider your

>> local repository as a cache, and you're ready to pay the disk space

>> price to save your bandwidth). In this case, it's often in your

>> filesystem (local or NFS).

>

> So how is the light checkout actually implemented? Do you grab the

> complete new snapshot each time the remote repository is updated?

No, the lightweight checkouts store very little.  They have

- - a copy of tree shape (filenames, paths, sha1 sums) from the last

  commit.

- - a copy of tree shape for the current working directory

- - a map from stat values to sha-1 hashes
> Do all

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> the (at least read-only, like "log" and "diff", perhaps "status")

> commands work on such a light checkout?

Yes.  And if you check out from a read-write branch, all write commands,

work, too.
Aaron

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