From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:36:59 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #06; Wed, 26)
Message-ID: <20081212033659.GB29663@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyf29jd6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:12:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Sure, but as "sparse" does not (again, "it should not, at least to me")
> change the fact that git is about tracking the history of whole tree, not
> just a single file, nor just a subset of files, none of these operations
> should be affected about what the checkout area is.

I agree with Junio here. If you want "git grep foo HEAD^" to ignore
certain files, then sparse _checkout_ is not the right feature. In that
case you want a sparse _repo_, which is not something I think anybody is
seriously working on.

-Peff