From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>,
Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lessley Dennington <lessleydennington@gmail.com>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document that set handles init
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 11:45:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab6a6e5d-d1a4-4122-5f4e-de4a840af681@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4e34c9-5485-c10d-48b6-a1a6f5e12486@github.com>
On 12/4/2021 4:48 PM, Victoria Dye wrote:
> Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> +'init'::
>> + Deprecated command that behaves like `set` with no specified paths.
>> + May be removed in the future.
>
> I'm on board with deprecating `init`, but one usage that's not covered by
> the updated `set` is toggling the sparse index *without* modifying the
> patterns. That likely won't matter to most users, but ones that assume `git
> sparse-checkout set --[no-]sparse-index` works the same way as `git
> sparse-checkout init --[no-]sparse-index` would find themselves losing their
> existing pattern set.
>
> Maybe `--[no-]sparse-index` should be added to `git sparse-checkout
> reapply`? For changing settings without updating patterns, that probably
> makes more sense than `init` or `set` anyway. If adding that option is
> outside the scope of what you want to do in this series, though, I'd be
> happy with a note somewhere in this documentation explicitly noting that
> `set` (unlike `init`) will change your patterns, even when toggling
> `index.sparse` (or `core.sparseCheckoutCone`).
I like 'reapply' as a good place for that functionality. Hopefully it
won't be long before the sparse index is on by default, but it will
still be good to have a user-facing way to toggle it, when necessary.
Thanks,
-Stolee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-07 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-04 20:00 [PATCH 0/6] sparse-checkout: make set subsume init Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-04 20:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-04 20:00 ` [PATCH 2/6] sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add) Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-04 20:00 ` [PATCH 3/6] sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-04 21:40 ` Victoria Dye
2021-12-07 17:04 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-07 20:36 ` Lessley Dennington
2021-12-07 16:42 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-12-07 18:18 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-04 20:00 ` [PATCH 4/6] git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document that set handles init Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-04 21:48 ` Victoria Dye
2021-12-07 16:45 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2021-12-07 17:06 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-07 20:42 ` Lessley Dennington
2021-12-07 21:13 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-07 22:36 ` Lessley Dennington
2021-12-04 20:00 ` [PATCH 5/6] Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-04 20:00 ` [PATCH 6/6] clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init` Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 16:48 ` [PATCH 0/6] sparse-checkout: make set subsume init Derrick Stolee
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add) Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] sparse-checkout: add sanity-checks on initial sparsity state Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] sparse-checkout: disallow --no-stdin as an argument to set Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] sparse-checkout: split out code for tweaking settings config Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take --[no-]{cone,sparse-index} Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document init/set/reapply changes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 20:20 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init` Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-07 21:05 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] sparse-checkout: make set subsume init Derrick Stolee
2021-12-08 14:16 ` Victoria Dye
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add) Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] sparse-checkout: add sanity-checks on initial sparsity state Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-13 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-14 2:25 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] sparse-checkout: disallow --no-stdin as an argument to set Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] sparse-checkout: split out code for tweaking settings config Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take --[no-]{cone,sparse-index} Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-13 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-14 2:39 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document init/set/reapply changes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init` Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] sparse-checkout: make set subsume init Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add) Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] sparse-checkout: add sanity-checks on initial sparsity state Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] sparse-checkout: disallow --no-stdin as an argument to set Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] sparse-checkout: split out code for tweaking settings config Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take --[no-]{cone,sparse-index} Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-23 0:47 ` Jiang Xin
2021-12-23 17:09 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-23 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document init/set/reapply changes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-14 7:38 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-12-14 7:48 ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-14 4:09 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init` Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
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