Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Are you possibly confusing pathspecs with gitignore patterns here? > (Or am I?) Or are you suggesting that sparse-checkout be modified to > accept either gitignore-style files or pathspecs and handle both? Much closer to the latter (actually, removing ignore patterns, and make the subsystem work with pathspecs). > I have never liked that gitignore-style patterns were used for > sparse-checkout, but it has always seemed a bit too late to change it. Perhaps. > Ever since Stolee introduced cone-mode, my preferred strategy for > fixing the gitignore-style patterns problem, assuming we are allowed > to do so, is to deprecate if not kill non-cone mode. (And in the > meantime, I'm just doing due diligence when I mention non-cone mode in > my reviews.)
