On 11/19/2019 12:50 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 01:56:19PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: >> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> To make the cone pattern set easy to use, update the behavior of >> 'git sparse-checkout [init|set]'. >> >> Add '--cone' flag to 'git sparse-checkout init' to set the config >> option 'core.sparseCheckoutCone=true'. > > It's not necessary to run 'git sparse-checkout init' before running > 'git sparse-checkout set'. The description of the latter in the > documentation is not explicit about it, but the commit message adding > the 'set' subcommand is, and there are several test cases that run > 'set' without a preceeding 'init. > > Therefore, I think the 'set' subcommand should get a '--cone' option > as well. I will take this under advisement, and revisit it in the follow-up. The recommended usage is to run 'init --cone' first, or to set 'core.sparseCheckoutCone=true' before running the 'set' command. We can improve this pattern to be more robust in the future.
