Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 4:17 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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). > > Oh, interesting. That'd at least suggest you're also happy to get rid > of the ignore patterns in this subsystem if we find a feasible > transition plan to do so. I'll keep that in mind. :-) It is more like "I've never used it and I'll probably never use it myself, so I have no data as to how badly we will be hurting existing users".
