Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/17] sparse-checkout: create builtin with 'list' subcommand

From: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:51:33 +0100

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 01:56:10PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..9d6ca22917
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
> +git-sparse-checkout(1)
> +======================
> +
> +NAME
> +----
> +git-sparse-checkout - Initialize and modify the sparse-checkout
> +configuration, which reduces the checkout to a set of directories

s/directories/paths/

> +given by a list of prefixes.

s/prefixes/patterns/

E.g. 'README' is a file, not a directory, and it's not interpreted as
a prefix:

  $ git sparse-checkout set README
  $ find | grep README
  ./README
  ./Documentation/ABI/README
  ./Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/README
  ./arch/m68k/fpsp040/README
  [...]

> +SYNOPSIS
> +--------
> +[verse]
> +'git sparse-checkout <subcommand> [options]'
> +
> +
> +DESCRIPTION
> +-----------
> +
> +Initialize and modify the sparse-checkout configuration, which reduces
> +the checkout to a set of directories given by a list of prefixes.

Likewise.