On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:34 AM, <skillzero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> There is e.g. question if "git grep" should search "no-checkout" files; >> in the "assume-unchanged" case it should, I think, search index version. > > I would like it to git grep to not search paths outside the sparse > area (although --no-sparse would be nice for git grep in case you did > want to search everything). The main reason I want sparse checkouts is > for performance reasons. For example, git grep can take 10 minutes on > my full repository so excluding paths outside the sparse area would > reduce that to a few seconds. That's a porcelain question that I'd leave it for now. FWIW you can do something like this: git ls-files -v|grep '^H'|cut -c 2-|xargs git grep /me misses "cleartool find" -- Duy -- 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