Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2008, #02; Sun, 14)

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> [On Hold]
>> 
>> * nd/narrow (Sun Nov 30 17:54:38 2008 +0700) 17 commits
>>  - wt-status: show sparse checkout info
>>  - Introduce default sparse patterns (core.defaultsparse)
>>  - checkout: add new options to support sparse checkout
>>  - clone: support sparse checkout with --sparse-checkout option
>>  - unpack_trees(): add support for sparse checkout
>>  - unpack_trees(): keep track of unmerged entries
>>  - Introduce "sparse patterns"
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into nd/narrow
>>  + t2104: touch portability fix
>>  + grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area
>>  + checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.
>>  + Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse
>>    checkout
>
> I think this patch (slightly reframed) would be good to have independantly 
> of the series; it also means that we won't do weird things if someone 
> changes a file in the worktree which is marked as CE_VALID, and may well 
> may CE_VALID sufficient for the index representation of paths outside the 
> checkout.