From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:47:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] git-clone: support --path to do sparse clone
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0807241147k1175c8a3mffc12e3b3cc1aa3f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080724171952.GB21043@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 7/25/08, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Will mention it when I write documentation for this.
-- 
Duy