Re: [PATCHv8 0/5] pathspec magic extension to search for attributes

> (B) requires some thought though. Here is my vision:
>
>     1) Allow pathspecs for sparse checkout.
>
>       I wonder if we just add support for that in .git/info-sparse-checkout
>       or if we add a new file that is for pathspecs only, or we have a config
>       option whether sparse-checkout follows pathspecs or gitignore patterns
>
>     2) Teach `git clone` a new option `--sparse-checkout <pathspec>`
>       When that option is set the pathspec is written into the new file from
>       (1) and core.sparsecheckout is set to true
>
>     3) Advertise to do a `git clone --sparse-checkout
> :(attr:default_submodules)`
>
> Going this way we would help making submodules not different but integrate more
> into other concepts of Git. As a downside this would require touching
> sparse checkout which may be more time consuming than just adding a
> `git clone --init-submodules-by-label` which stores the labels and only upddates
> those submodules.
>
> Or are there other ideas how to go from here?