On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:53 PM Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> +core.virtualFilesystem:: > >> + If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which > >> + will identify all files and directories that are present in > >> + the working directory. Git will only track and update files > >> + listed in the virtual file system. Using the virtual file system > >> + will supersede the sparse-checkout settings which will be ignored. > >> + See the "virtual file system" section of linkgit:githooks[6]. > > > > It sounds like "virtual file system" is just one of the use cases for > > this feature, which is more about a dynamic source of sparse-checkout > > bits. Perhaps name the config key with something along sparse checkout > > instead of naming it after a use case. > > It's more than a dynamic sparse-checkout because the same list is also > used to exclude any file/folder not listed. That means any file not > listed won't ever be updated by git (like in 'checkout' for example) so > 'stale' files could be left in the working directory. It also means git > won't find new/untracked files unless they are specifically added to the > list. OK. I'm not at all interested in carrying maintenance burden for some software behind closed doors. I could see values in having a more flexible sparse checkout but this now seems like very tightly designed for GVFS. So unless there's another use case (preferably open source) for this, I don't think this should be added in git.git. -- Duy
