Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2022, #01; Mon, 2)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 5, 2022, 15:56 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHDKRX4sW_Jjqw5j7Voas0X_xkFZgg5Jqk0TkNZOd7k1g@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> On v2 you said, "There are a few things that I found questionable, but
> they were mostly documentation issues".  You brought up several points
> in v2 where my wording in the Documentation was admittedly suboptimal,
> though I think I addressed all of those in v3.

Correct. The above is all assuming that "cone is the future" is what is shared by the population that depends on sparse-checkout. I do not have strong opinions to declare that, but to help the topic move forward, I was giving reviews under the condition, i.e. "If there is such a concensus, here are the things in your current iteration that would need to be addressed".

I vaguely recall there were folks who didn't like the change of default the last time you brought this topic up. Convincing them is not my job---it is yours. Mine has been to help prepare the code ready for public consumption when that happens.