>> I don't mind a special option to turn this on for debugging, but the >> normal "-v" for read-tree is not "show me random noise", but rather >> "keep me occupied with a progress bar". If it were triggered by two or >> more "-v" options (which could also contain other debugging output), I'd >> be more sympathetic. Right totally - sorry, I'm not familiar with what -v would normally do (! I better get!) My suggestion is more along the lines of "it would be really helpful to have a really verbose debugging option for sparsecheckout (be that read-tree or something else), because it can be quite hard to work out why it's not working the way you expect'. Regards, Martin -- 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