Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] --sparse for porcelains

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:37:47 +0200

Raja R Harinath schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> 2009/8/12 Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>:
>>> BTW, the name .git/info/sparse is perhaps a bit too technical in the sense
>>> that only git developers know that this feature runs under the name
>>> "sparse checkout". Perhaps it should be named
>>>
>>>   .git/info/indexonly
>>>   .git/info/nocheckout
>>>
>>> or so.
>> I did not like the name "sparse" either. Another option is
>> .git/info/assume-unchanged.
> 
> Or .git/info/doppelgangers, or even .git/info/doppelgängers :-)

Heh!

   .git/info/phantoms
   git checkout --no-phantoms
   git read-tree --phantoms

-- Hannes