Re: [PATCH] checkout: add --sparse for restoring files in sparse checkout mode

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Hi

On 03/24/2013 07:17 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ branch by running "git rm -rf ." from the top level of the working tree.
  Afterwards you will be ready to prepare your new files, repopulating the
  working tree, by copying them from elsewhere, extracting a tarball, etc.

+
+--sparse::
+	In sparse checkout mode, `git checkout -- <paths>` would
+	update all entries matched by <paths> regardless sparse
+	patterns. This option only updates entries matched by <paths>
+	and sparse patterns.
Hm, should this be the default?

In principle, I would expect

	git checkout -- .

to make the worktree match the index, respecting the sparse checkout.
And something like

	git checkout --widen -- .

to change the sparse checkout pattern.  But of course it is easily
possible that I am missing some details of how sparse checkout is
used in practice.

What do you think?
Thank you for your opinion. I'd second that. When I do a sparse checkout, I want to see only the directories I have included and not excluded, unless I explicitly change that.


-Kirill
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