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diff --git a/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn b/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn index 4f7b4b561..b90fb3e45 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]] |