Hi, On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Peter Harris wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > If I want to have a sparse checkout, I know which files I _want_. > > That's funny. I have a git tree that would benefit from sparse checkout. > I know which path I _don't_ want. Specifying all the paths I want would > be a rather longer (and more error-prone) list. I suspect it would be > best to support both. Yes, I agree, but the common case is for people to know what they are working on, right? > Does sparse use the same parser as .gitignore? (I guess not, if it > handles trailing slashes differently?) If so, it would be trivial to > turn "exclude path" into "exclude all but path" (or vice-versa) with: > > * > !path That was the idea behind my suggestion to allow .gitignore syntax. And indeed, that is what happened. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html