Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-read-tree.txt: correct sparse-checkout and skip-worktree description

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

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In hindsight, it would have been much better to have a "sparse-ignore"
or "sparse-skip" file so that an empty file would mean a full checkout,
and the file logic would be analogous to that of .gitignore, excludes
and skip-worktree.

.gitignore works towards excluding files. No rule means no excluding.
sparse-checkout file works towards including files, no rule means no
inclusion.

Sure, but with a "sparse-skip" rather than "sparse-checkout", we would
not even need an additional config variable, and the skip-worktree
centered explanations would follow the same logic (no need for the
additional negation) as the ignore files and the new sparse-skip file.

I'll kill that config variable some day when sparse checkout code has
no overhead over normal case ("include all").
-- 
Duy