Sorry, I was taking attention on other place and totally forgot that. I will restart to look into the patch again today Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> 于2020年5月5日周二 下午8:26写道： > > 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/
