From: Müller Kirill <kirill.mueller@ivt.baug.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:27:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout mode
Message-ID: <1368523634.10814.3.camel@vpl-thinkpad10>
In-Reply-To: <1365808328-4191-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Thank you, this looks nice. What needs to be done that this will
eventually reach the git in my favorite distribution? Which version of
Git will this be?


Cheers

Kirill


On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 09:12 +1000, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> "git checkout -- <paths>" is usually used to restore all modified
> files in <paths>. In sparse checkout mode, this command is overloaded
> with another meaning: to add back all files in <paths> that are
> excluded by sparse patterns.
> 
> As the former makes more sense for day-to-day use. Switch it to the
> default and the latter enabled with --ignore-skip-worktree-bits.