On 5/4/2020 12:06 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 29/04 10:09, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>> --- >>>> I wanted to ask why is there no mention of partial cloning in >>>> the 'git-clone' documentation? Is it because it is an experimental >>>> feature? >>> >>> If the folks that have been pushing the feature haven't bothered to >>> document it fully, by definition, it must be a work in progress that >>> is not ready for the prime time ;-) >>> >>> Jokes aside, the --filter=<filter-spec> option is mentioned in the >>> documentation and it says "...is used for the partial clone filter", >>> without even defining what a "partial clone filter" really is. >>> >>> The topic deserves its own subsection, between the "Git URLs" and >>> the "Examples" sections, in git-clone(1). >> >> May I try to add it? If yes then are there any points to be kept in mind >> while writing this part (for eg., length of the subsection, writing >> style, what all is to be written etc.)? > > I am much less qualified to answer these questions than others on > the CC: list. > > Who added the mention to --filter and "used for the partial clone filter" > to the page anyway? Did you run "git blame" to find out? > > ... goes and looks ... > > It was added by 4a465443 (clone: document --filter options, 2020-03-22). > > Derrick, perhaps you can help Shourya to find a good place to give > a birds-eye description for the partial-clone feature and figure out > what points about the feature are worth covering there? Yes, in the series that added those options I requested help in documenting the partial clone. This was started in [1] but seems to have gone stale. CC'ing Dyrone to see where they are with this. Shourya: would you be willing to help the patch [1] get finished? You could probably incorporate it into this series (adding your sign-off). Let's see if Dyrone gets back to us. Thanks, -Stolee [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/c1a44a35095e7d681c312ecaa07c46e49f2fae67.1586791560.git.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx/
