Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 9/19/2019 10:43 AM, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: >> This series makes the sparse-checkout feature more user-friendly. While >> there, I also present a way to use a limited set of patterns to gain a >> significant performance boost in very large repositories. >> >> Sparse-checkout is only documented as a subsection of the read-tree docs >> [1], which makes the feature hard to discover. Users have trouble navigating >> the feature, especially at clone time [2], and have even resorted to >> creating their own helper tools [3]. >> >> This series attempts to solve these problems using a new builtin. > > I haven't heard anything about this series since Elijah's careful > review of the RFC. There are definitely areas where this can be > made more robust, but I'd like to save those for a follow-up series. > > Junio: I know you didn't track this in the recent "what's cooking" > list, and I don't expect you to take it until I re-roll v3 to > include the .gitignore interaction I already pointed out. I have made a mental note that says "expecting v3, a reroll. cf. <7d87fe4b-160c-34c2-db6d-4a56fd919755@xxxxxxxxx>"; there is no existing entry to hang it below in the "what's cooking" report, though X-<.
