Re: [PATCH 08/12] git-clone: support --path to do sparse clone

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:57:18PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
>  > +             if (option_sparse_prefix) {
>  > +                     git_config_set("core.sparsecheckout", option_sparse_prefix);
>  > +                     set_sparse_prefix(option_sparse_prefix);
>  > +             }
>  > +
>
>
> As a user, I would expect "sparse clone" to also be sparse on the
>  fetching. That is, to not even bother fetching tree objects that we are
>  not going to check out. But that is a whole other can of worms from
>  local sparseness, so I think it is worth saving for a different series.
>
>  So instead I would suggest that this be mentioned in the documentation
>  for --path, but there doesn't seem to be any.