Re: [PATCH 1/1] sparse-checkout: list folders in cone mode

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sparse-checkout: list folders in cone mode
s/folder/directory/ everywhere as the rest of Git.

> When core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled, the 'git sparse-checkout set'
> command taks a list of folders as input, then creates an ordered

"takes"

> list of sparse-checkout patterns such that those folders are
> recursively included and all sibling blobs along the parent folders

In this sentence, what does a "blob" really mean?  Do you mean a
filesystem entity, that is not a folder, that is immediately
contained in the "parent folder" (in other words, regular files
and symbolic links)?

How would this interact with a submodule by the way?

> are also included. Listing the patterns is less user-friendly than the
> folders themselves.
>
> In cone mode, and as long as the patterns match the expected cone-mode
> pattern types, change the output of 'git sparse-checkout list' to only
> show the folders that created the patterns.
> ...
> +In the cone mode case, the `git sparse-checkout list` subcommand will list the
> +folders that define the recursive patterns. For the example sparse-checkout file
> +above, the output is as follows:
> +
> +--------------------------
> +$ git sparse-checkout list
> +A/B/C
> +--------------------------
> +

Sounds like a worthwhile usability improvement.