From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:19:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] git-clone: support --path to do sparse clone
Message-ID: <20080724171952.GB21043@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080723145718.GA29134@laptop>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:57:18PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> +		if (option_sparse_prefix) {
> +			git_config_set("core.sparsecheckout", option_sparse_prefix);
> +			set_sparse_prefix(option_sparse_prefix);
> +		}
> +

As a user, I would expect "sparse clone" to also be sparse on the
fetching. That is, to not even bother fetching tree objects that we are
not going to check out. But that is a whole other can of worms from
local sparseness, so I think it is worth saving for a different series.

So instead I would suggest that this be mentioned in the documentation
for --path, but there doesn't seem to be any.

-Peff