From 630fe90bf33104dba650fc3c804be3413c67a055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:24:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update --- doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn b/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn index 4f7b4b561c..b90fb3e457 100644 --- a/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,15 @@ So what's someone to do if he wants to deal with the usability issue mentioned a Maybe this could be accomplished through a [[dumb, unsafe, human-readable backend]]? Thanks for any advice! --[[anarcat]] + +> This has never been done by direct mode AFAICR. +> +> But, [[design/adjusted_branches]] can do it. The basic functionality is +> implemented already; what's missing is that, once in an adjusted branch +> with missing files hidden, when a file's content arrives the adjusted +> branch needs to be updated to expose the file. +> +> This will need hooks into +> the adjusted branch code when file contents are get/dropped, and the +> naive way to do it could make things quite slow, if the branch needs to +> be re-adjusted after each get/drop of each file. --[[Joey]]