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Re: sparse support in pu

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 16:05 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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>> That's funny. I have a git tree that would benefit from sparse checkout. 
>> I know which path I _don't_ want. Specifying all the paths I want would 
>> be a rather longer (and more error-prone) list. I suspect it would be 
>> best to support both.
>
> Yes, I agree, but the common case is for people to know what they are 
> working on, right?

I either may be working on Documentation/ (I know I do not care about everthing else so I can afford to list Makefile and Documentation/ in the "interesting" list), or I either may be working on code (I do not know how many code directories there are, and do not care to list them, but I know I do not need Documentation/ and contrib/). You need both ways.

And with .gitignore syntax you can have both.
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