Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is that the expected behavior? In a sparse-checkout, wouldn't you _want_ > Git to report things outside the cone? That should be optional, I would think. When you declare "by default, this the subset of the project I am interested in", we should honor it, I would think. > At minimum, I would expect a new option to have "git grep" go back to > the old behavior, so users who really want a tree-wide search can have > one. Yeah, a bugfix to honor SKIP_WORKTREE bit, followed by a new feature to ignore it, would be pretty sensible way to go.
