Re: [PATCH 08/12] git-clone: support --path to do sparse clone

On 7/25/08, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:57:18PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

 > +             if (option_sparse_prefix) {
 > +                     git_config_set("core.sparsecheckout", option_sparse_prefix);
 > +                     set_sparse_prefix(option_sparse_prefix);
 > +             }
 > +


As a user, I would expect "sparse clone" to also be sparse on the
 fetching. That is, to not even bother fetching tree objects that we are
 not going to check out. But that is a whole other can of worms from
 local sparseness, so I think it is worth saving for a different series.

 So instead I would suggest that this be mentioned in the documentation
 for --path, but there doesn't seem to be any.

Thanks. Will mention it when I write documentation for this.
-- 
Duy