This series is based on the discussions we had some months ago[1], about git-grep not currently honoring the sparsity patterns. To summarize, the idea is that, since a sparse checkout is used to limit the set of files in which users are interested, git-grep should, by default, only search within this boundary. But it would be good to also have an '--ignore-sparsity' option, to restore the old behavior when needed, as there are also valid use cases for it. The following patches seek to address these suggestions. The first patch is not really related, it is a cleanup, used by the third one. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAHd-oW7e5qCuxZLBeVDq+Th3E+E4+P8=WzJfK8WcG2yz=n_nag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/t/#u Matheus Tavares (3): doc: grep: unify info on configuration variables grep: honor sparse checkout patterns grep: add option to ignore sparsity patterns Documentation/config/grep.txt | 10 ++- Documentation/git-grep.txt | 40 +++------- builtin/grep.c | 36 ++++++++- t/t7011-skip-worktree-reading.sh | 9 --- t/t7817-grep-sparse-checkout.sh | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t7817-grep-sparse-checkout.sh -- 2.25.1
