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

On 8/20/08, James Pickens [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

I have no particular preference. It's up to the community to choose the name.

 > 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.

Tried the last few days but it was not easy, needed to duplicate
fnmatch code. I may come up with a less powerful syntax for
recusive/non-recursive '*'.
-- 
Duy