From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 06:18:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git-grep in sparse checkout
Message-ID: <xmqq36gbfz62.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <f3101c8f-9709-5bcb-35f0-39ffaf8aa809@gmail.com>

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

> Is that the expected behavior? In a sparse-checkout, wouldn't you _want_
> Git to report things outside the cone?

That should be optional, I would think.  When you declare "by
default, this the subset of the project I am interested in", we
should honor it, I would think.

> At minimum, I would expect a new option to have "git grep" go back to
> the old behavior, so users who really want a tree-wide search can have
> one.

Yeah, a bugfix to honor SKIP_WORKTREE bit, followed by a new feature
to ignore it, would be pretty sensible way to go.