Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The biggest change in this version was suggested in feedback to the last > patch. I have turned on the optimzation by default if sparse-checkout is > not on so that most users do not have to set anything and they will get the > benefit of the optimization. Sounds like a good thing to do. If we missed something in the logic of skip_merge_working_tree(), the breakage may affect more unsuspecting people, which may or may not be a bad thing---at least it would allow us to notice it sooner. > + When set to true, "git checkout -b <new_branch>" will not update the > + skip-worktree bit in the index nor add/remove files in the working > + directory to reflect the current sparse checkout settings. This reads a lot clearer, at least to me, than the documentation update in the previous round, by speaking in terms of what the user-visible side effect of this setting would be. Nicely done. Thanks.
