From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:04:51 GMT
Subject: Re: bug: sparse config interpretation incorrectness in 2.8.0-rc2
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1603171402330.4690@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8A2D8CqeWZ6CFdTVXzXiWdonBE=3tWFPpe7-ZmDtNGYNw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Duy,

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> Good news for you is there's "sparse checkout v2" in the work, that
> would not rely on exclude engine and should be both faster and more
> elegant. That should reduce "sparse checkout v1" usage to really small
> cases.

I dabbled myself with speeding up the entire exclude engine (essentially,
I use a hash map of the non-wildcard prefixes to the corresponding line
number). So I am interested to see what your approach is. Could you point
me to it (I did not see any obvious branch in your GitHub space)?

Thanks,
Dscho