From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:39:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-read-tree.txt: correct sparse-checkout and skip-worktree description
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AmvgjCwEikB-0NOf5gV+fcnFsAnhtYj6w6y8kfHu9b9Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E79AF57.3010300@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>> In hindsight, it would have been much better to have a "sparse-ignore"
>>> or "sparse-skip" file so that an empty file would mean a full checkout,
>>> and the file logic would be analogous to that of .gitignore, excludes
>>> and skip-worktree.
>>
>> .gitignore works towards excluding files. No rule means no excluding.
>> sparse-checkout file works towards including files, no rule means no
>> inclusion.
>
> Sure, but with a "sparse-skip" rather than "sparse-checkout", we would
> not even need an additional config variable, and the skip-worktree
> centered explanations would follow the same logic (no need for the
> additional negation) as the ignore files and the new sparse-skip file.

I'll kill that config variable some day when sparse checkout code has
no overhead over normal case ("include all").
-- 
Duy