On 10/2/2019 2:18 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. Thanks for everyone's responses here. I am satisfied with this direction. -Stolee
