From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:42:47 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2008, #02; Sun, 14) Message-ID: <7vr648uc88.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow writes: > 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. It is a bit unclear which one you meant by "this patch", sorry.