Re: sparse support in pu

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Johannes Sixt<j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> In order to advocate my earlier proposal: Name the file
>> .git/info/phantoms, then it's clear: "The files mentioned here are
>> phantoms" - they exist in the index, but not in the worktree; no phantoms
>> means that everything is checked out.
> 
> OK. Phantom checkout, must be unique in VCS world ;-) If no one
> objects my next series will use this name as it's better than "sparse"
> and "assume-unchanged" is just too vague. Would option names to
> enable/disable this be --with[out]-phantoms?