On Mon, Aug 17, 2009, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > The term 'phantom' is not specified at all. At least interested people on > the mailing list know 'sparse'. But I agree that the naming is a major > problem, hence my earlier (unanswered) call. I don't particularly like 'phantom' either, but I haven't come up with any good alternatives. 'sparse' seems fine to me, though it might make sense to lengthen it to 'sparse-checkout'. > However, I would find specifying what you do _not_ want in that file > rather unintuitive, in the same leage as receive.denyNonFastForwards = no. > > If I want to have a sparse checkout, I know which files I _want_. I agree; specifying which files you don't want seems backwards to me. James -- 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