Re: [PATCH 04/10] status: skip sparse-checkout percentage with sparse-index

On 4/20/2021 7:26 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 7:01 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Avoid the expensive computation by simplifying the output to only report
that a sparse checkout exists, without the percentage.

Makes sense.  The percentage wasn't critical, it was just a nice UI
bonus.  The critical part is notifying about being in a sparse
checkout.

It makes me wonder slightly if we'd want to remove the percentage for
both modes just to keep them more similar.  I'll ask some folks for
their thoughts/opinions.  Of course, that could always be tweaked
later and doesn't necessarily need to go into your series.

I find the percentage helpful for users who are exploring the
sparse-checkout feature in their repositories. It's nice to know how
much time it is saving, because "percentage of files" frequently
translates to "percentage of time it takes to update the worktree".

I was sad to lose it here, but I don't see any way to keep it.

Thanks,
-Stolee