From: skillzero@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:34:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] --sparse for porcelains
Message-ID: <2729632a0908171734p16d6ee7dm5f62848f7625ffbc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200908180217.35963.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is e.g. question if "git grep" should search "no-checkout" files;
> in the "assume-unchanged" case it should, I think, search index version.

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.