Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] New sparse-checkout builtin and "cone" mode

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 1, 2019, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID: <47186f02-164d-fa41-f65c-05a197e4a046@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.316.v2.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On 9/19/2019 10:43 AM, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> This series makes the sparse-checkout feature more user-friendly. While
> there, I also present a way to use a limited set of patterns to gain a
> significant performance boost in very large repositories.
> 
> Sparse-checkout is only documented as a subsection of the read-tree docs
> [1], which makes the feature hard to discover. Users have trouble navigating
> the feature, especially at clone time [2], and have even resorted to
> creating their own helper tools [3].
> 
> This series attempts to solve these problems using a new builtin.

I haven't heard anything about this series since Elijah's careful review of the RFC. There are definitely areas where this can be made more robust, but I'd like to save those for a follow-up series.

Junio: I know you didn't track this in the recent "what's cooking"
list, and I don't expect you to take it until I re-roll v3 to
include the .gitignore interaction I already pointed out.

Thanks, -Stolee