From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:37:30 GMT Subject: rev-list --sparse? Message-ID: <7v64rfxuwl.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: I was reviewing the rev-list documentation and it struck me that dense/sparse command line flag do not make much sense. Since dense is by default in effect, --dense is a no-op. One possible use of it would be to hardcode --dense on a rev-list command line in a script, like: git-rev-list $some_opts --dense $some_paths to defeat user-supplied --sparse that can be in $some_opts, but for this to work the script needs to have parsed out user input into some_opts and some_paths in the first place anyway, so it can just detect and remove --sparse just as easily. The --sparse flag does not seem to have much use either; not giving pathspec has the same effect.