From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:59:19 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2008, #02; Sun, 14)
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0812151423390.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7i632mg9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.

	-Daniel
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