Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Narrow/Sparse checkout round 3: "easy mode"

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes:

From user POV, we can now checkout a single file or a
subdirectory (checking out subdirectory non-recursively is
possible too). You may start with a narrow clone like:

Is there any reason for the change in terminology from "sparse"
to "narrow"?  I understand the difference between "partial"
and "sparse", but I can't tell if there's any difference
between "narrow" and "sparse".  If they are the same thing, then
I think "sparse" is the better term.

Last bit. "Narrow rules" for --path|--add-path|--remove-path is
currently wildcards separated by colons. While it does the job,
it does not allow to checkout easily a subdirectory
non-recusively. I was thinking about '*' as "match everything
except slashes" and '**' as "match everything even slashes".

I like this idea - it would make this much more intuitive to use,
since '*' and '**' would work the same as they do in the
shell (for shells that support '**' at least).  I tried the patch
in it's current form, and it took me a while to figure out that
paths were non-recursive and '*' was matching everything,
including slashes.

James