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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Cc: Shaoxuan Yuan <shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:37:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BGvihOqmz14CBudQ=7_=QXc-3NN3o3Tmy=MY3ykkqwPiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80f24382-1188-d450-d1e2-42f68c08e60b@github.com>

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 7:25 AM Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/17/2022 3:56 AM, Shaoxuan Yuan wrote:
> > Add a --sparse option to `git-grep`. This option is mainly used to:
> >
> > If searching in the index (using --cached):
> >
> > With --sparse, proceed the action when the current cache_entry is
>
> This phrasing is awkward. It might be better to reframe to describe the
> _why_ before the _what_
>
>   When the '--cached' option is used with the 'git grep' command, the
>   search is limited to the blobs found in the index, not in the worktree.
>   If the user has enabled sparse-checkout, this might present more results
>   than they would like, since the files outside of the sparse-checkout are
>   unlikely to be important to them.
>
>   Change the default behavior of 'git grep' to focus on the files within
>   the sparse-checkout definition. To enable the previous behavior, add a
>   '--sparse' option to 'git grep' that triggers the old behavior that
>   inspects paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition when paired
>   with the '--cached' option.
>
> Or something like that. The documentation updates will also help clarify
> what happens when '--cached' is not included. I assume '--sparse' is
> ignored, but perhaps it _could_ allow looking at the cached files outside
> the sparse-checkout definition, this could make the simpler invocation of
> 'git grep --sparse <pattern>' be the way that users can search after their
> attempt to search the worktree failed.

In addition to Stolee's comments, isn't this command line confusing?

  $ git grep --cached --sparse   # Do a *dense* search
  $ git grep --cached            # Do a *sparse* search

?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-17 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-17  7:56 [PATCH v1 0/2] grep: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-17  7:56 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-17 14:12   ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-17 17:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-17 17:34       ` Victoria Dye
2022-08-17 17:43         ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-17 18:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-17 17:37     ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2022-08-24 18:20     ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-24 19:08       ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-17  7:56 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] builtin/grep.c: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-17 14:23   ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-24 21:06     ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-25  0:39       ` Derrick Stolee
2022-08-17 13:46 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] grep: " Derrick Stolee
2022-08-29 23:28 ` [PATCH v2 " Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-29 23:28   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-29 23:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] builtin/grep.c: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-30 13:45     ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-01  4:57 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] grep: " Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-01  4:57   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-01  4:57   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] builtin/grep.c: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-01  4:57   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] builtin/grep.c: walking tree instead of expanding index with --sparse Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-01 17:03     ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-01 18:31       ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-01 17:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-01 17:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-01 22:49         ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-01 22:36       ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-02  3:28     ` Victoria Dye
2022-09-02 18:47       ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] grep: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-03  0:36   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-03  0:36   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] builtin/grep.c: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-03  0:36   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] builtin/grep.c: walking tree instead of expanding index with --sparse Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-03  4:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-08  0:24       ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-08  0:18 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] grep: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-08  0:18   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-10  1:07     ` Victoria Dye
2022-09-14  6:08     ` Elijah Newren
2022-09-15  2:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-18  2:14         ` Elijah Newren
2022-09-18 19:52           ` Victoria Dye
2022-09-19  1:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-19  4:27             ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-19 11:03             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-20  7:13             ` Elijah Newren
2022-09-17  3:34       ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-18  4:24         ` Elijah Newren
2022-09-19  4:13           ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-17  3:45       ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-08  0:18   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] builtin/grep.c: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-08  0:18   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] builtin/grep.c: walking tree instead of expanding index with --sparse Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-08 17:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-08 20:46       ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-08 20:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-08 21:06           ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-09 12:49           ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-13 17:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-10  2:04     ` Victoria Dye
2022-09-23  4:18 ` [PATCH v6 0/1] grep: integrate with sparse index Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-23  4:18   ` [PATCH v6 1/1] builtin/grep.c: " Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-09-23 16:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-23 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-26 17:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-23 14:13   ` [PATCH v6 0/1] grep: " Derrick Stolee
2022-09-23 16:01   ` Victoria Dye
2022-09-23 17:08     ` Junio C Hamano

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