From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:12:53 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #06; Wed, 26)
Message-ID: <7vmyf29jd6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0812112045120.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> "git diff" is an ambiguous model for "git grep". It equally describes 
> the behavior of "git diff" to say that it treats files outside the 
> checkout area as matching the index or to say that it never lists files 
> outside the checkout area. On the other hand, there is the question of 
> whether "git diff branch1 branch2" shows differences that are outside the 
> checkout area, and whether "git log" shows commits that only change things 
> outside the checkout area, and "git grep" should match the behavior of 
> these.

Sure, but as "sparse" does not (again, "it should not, at least to me")
change the fact that git is about tracking the history of whole tree, not
just a single file, nor just a subset of files, none of these operations
should be affected about what the checkout area is.