From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133541F4C0 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728276AbfJUMKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:10:44 -0400 Received: from mail-qk1-f196.google.com ([209.85.222.196]:46400 "EHLO mail-qk1-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728134AbfJUMKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:10:43 -0400 Received: by mail-qk1-f196.google.com with SMTP id e66so12298652qkf.13 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 05:10:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AZg9PA4+WXYBM8hDv9ZvTkuGQ6MkNVyi1oOAwtIOnQY=; b=AwvDfWK/jugO72VvR3q2Cw69qvNfNSFH3EBZdVeddKiD58P+M51/B82CvTIOPCYedu 4LhcICDoDx19ENV5Tu14mgy8AGjNhhlu8T3yqqtSxCk8TKq8zPAvVypGvPzOtxe7azds gtU3w8QdXPjWuGnFswKL62AWonMyImDYaDn2uKtfRvmXXPzux8ttfHfWFLGfb7DXXyyH R/W1SPymkfyzuidoUzdQIGw16HrppURzxZ4FSQ33LeHewewJ3BXx1RHZstSBTkCfBLG1 nW1CE41jW25d8Ur8gVy6TmQ3tw/o7idvq2cmw74hsk9fleGZFM/Q2Yfq7snFAeq426q0 SIzA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AZg9PA4+WXYBM8hDv9ZvTkuGQ6MkNVyi1oOAwtIOnQY=; b=XUgYtmCy4/oGjMF7j6PNmWg5I2XV2ZOj1FC9RTroA8S2WU86V0WBbmuTwkQUgyKznh PnNzGHsoIODyiITGYMhnB1bedVbs0Komm1obskLDfRO3R/fXQij/GxgcbzY/GMdjCRXF 4Wl9BgnFFyBS2Mpyzn9UUUrEt0221om5Df4+DudClgDVguxPLIa77HPw6bt/DCgN4xXK sk6Ulwc1PXSjX6q3ZT2OX6zLYglT7TzFNRCAFFmO+ApKGlWcf2ZdvuhG54YrbgdDX+OW OWYl0r+2+T6k7KeUgUxBT9fKZ22fWdZmHDUQnNI5/M87gl4PDY/hSJyiSHFs8uH63b9m gKIg== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXVXgVFhcjVFePtzGf5ec9Ot+WV7B2wO6j2JSyb1+q/CPvPPirP 1yL86p606+WjxG5jMq9yM9w4TBdCibs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqy4/6PIUpmhD9P6Jh4lTABgWzKiOxE+KkxTBPzFwg3Cv3KIF3zbOM50q3uzeSs3keIri2u9og== X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:1123:: with SMTP id p3mr20964479qkk.6.1571659842699; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 05:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:4898:6808:13e:4018:ebea:d287:d7b3? ([2001:4898:a800:1010:f14d:ebea:d287:d7b3]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a9sm7983639qkb.94.2019.10.21.05.10.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Oct 2019 05:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/17] sparse-checkout: create builtin with 'list' subcommand To: Elijah Newren , Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget Cc: Git Mailing List , Derrick Stolee , Junio C Hamano References: <63626e109767c268ee81b50abd21b95b1f1b5bfb.1571147765.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> From: Derrick Stolee Message-ID: <01f02ca8-00a6-6b48-1cc5-345547c2d5e4@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:10:41 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/70.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 10/16/2019 3:00 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:56 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget > wrote: >> +DESCRIPTION >> +----------- >> + >> +Initialize and modify the sparse-checkout configuration, which reduces >> +the checkout to a set of directories given by a list of prefixes. >> + >> +THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE. > > I think the wording needs to be a bit more detailed; you copied the > wording from git-switch.txt, but usage of git-switch is not expected > to modify the behavior of other commands. sparse-checkout, by > contrast, is designed to affect other commands: at the very least > checkout & switch, and likely will affect grep, diff, log, and a host > of others. Perhaps something like: > > THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. ITS BEHAVIOR, AND THE BEHAVIOR OF OTHER > COMMANDS IN THE PRESENCE OF SPARSE-CHECKOUTS, WILL LIKELY CHANGE IN > THE FUTURE. Thanks. I was taking your comment to mean "this builtin is experimental" but what you really mean is "the sparse-checkout feature is (still) experimental". -Stolee