Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This test failure is a result of a behavior change in the logging of 'git > rm' in this series when removing a sparse directory. Patch 4 talks about it > in more detail [1]; I failed to account for it in my series. Ah, OK. When a directory being "git rm"'ed is outside the cone(s) of our interest, it indeed does feel like a waste to expand the index only to report which paths in that directory are being removed. It would be OK for the behaviour to be different inside and outside the cone(s).
