git find (was: [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] --sparse for porcelains)

> > I would like it to git grep to not search paths outside the sparse
> > area (although --no-sparse would be nice for git grep in case you did
> > want to search everything). The main reason I want sparse checkouts is
> > for performance reasons. For example, git grep can take 10 minutes on
> > my full repository so excluding paths outside the sparse area would
> > reduce that to a few seconds.
> 
> That's a porcelain question that I'd leave it for now. FWIW you can do
> something like this:
> 
> git ls-files -v|grep '^H'|cut -c 2-|xargs git grep
> 
> /me misses "cleartool find"