From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
To: Shaoxuan Yuan <shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vdye@github.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] builtin/grep.c: add --sparse option
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:08:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b70b2754-aaa9-e01a-a576-9d1c83b39736@github.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74ff1a97-fa98-7280-9d84-35dafaf3cb3d@gmail.com>
On 8/24/2022 2:20 PM, Shaoxuan Yuan wrote:
> Hi reviewrs,
>
> I came back from busying with relocation :)
Welcome back! I'm looking forward to overlapping our timezones a bit more.
> On 8/17/2022 10:12 PM, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> On 8/17/2022 3:56 AM, Shaoxuan Yuan wrote:
>>> Add a --sparse option to `git-grep`. This option is mainly used to:
>> 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.
>
> This simpler version was in my earlier local branch, but later I
> decided not to go with it. I found the difference between these two
> approaches, is that "--cached --sparse" is more correct in terms of
> how Git actually works (because sparsity is a concept in the index);
> and "--sparse" is more comfortable for the end user.
>
> I found the former one better here, because it is more self-explanatory,
> and thus more info for the user, i.e. "you are now looking at the
> index, and Git will also consider files outside of sparse definition."
>
> To be honest, I don't know which one is "better", but I think I'll
> keep the current implementation unless something more convincing shows
> up later.
I think it is fine for you to keep the "--sparse requires --cached"
approach that you have now, since we can always choose to extend
the options to allow --sparse without --cached later.
Thanks,
-Stolee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-24 19:08 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
2022-08-24 18:20 ` Shaoxuan Yuan
2022-08-24 19:08 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
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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