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Re: sparse support in pu

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JPJames Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 16:49 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> The term 'phantom' is not specified at all.  At least interested people on
> the mailing list know 'sparse'.  But I agree that the naming is a major
> problem, hence my earlier (unanswered) call.

I don't particularly like 'phantom' either, but I haven't come up with any good alternatives. 'sparse' seems fine to me, though it might make sense to lengthen it to 'sparse-checkout'.

> However, I would find specifying what you do _not_ want in that file
> rather unintuitive, in the same leage as receive.denyNonFastForwards = no.
>
> If I want to have a sparse checkout, I know which files I _want_.
I agree; specifying which files you don't want seems backwards to me.
James
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  7. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2009
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  14. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2009
  15. Peter HarrisAug 17, 2009
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  20. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 17, 2009
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