"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... This idea has always been in the back of my > mind since the sparse index was created, but it didn't make sense > initially when only a few builtins could operate without immediately > expanding a sparse index to a full one. Yeah, if this triggered for a command whose operation does require expanding, then that would be annoying to the users. The phrasing that suggests "git clean" used in this version does look better. I wonder if "git clean" would also have to expand and then trigger this warning, though ;-) Thanks.