From: Raja R Harinath <harinath@hurrynot.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] --sparse for porcelains
Message-ID: <87ljlpvy4r.fsf@hariville.hurrynot.org>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0908120253p192125a4mbb6a0838fc90f10e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/8/12 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
>> BTW, the name .git/info/sparse is perhaps a bit too technical in the sense
>> that only git developers know that this feature runs under the name
>> "sparse checkout". Perhaps it should be named
>>
>>   .git/info/indexonly
>>   .git/info/nocheckout
>>
>> or so.
>
> I did not like the name "sparse" either. Another option is
> .git/info/assume-unchanged.

Or .git/info/doppelgangers, or even .git/info/doppelgängers :-)

- Hari