Hey,
  Thanks for the info. Your explanations make sense and I will make the appropriate changes. I had two questions I had two questions regarding this: 
  I have been trying to base my changes off the 'sl/diff-files-sparse' branch, but I am not sure how I would go about doing that. I thought I would be just pulling changes from some remote repo but I couldn't find one. So, could you let me know how I could do that?
  Also, I don't seem to have been CC'd on this email. Just wanted to point that out, so that I don't accidentally miss conversations.

Thanks,
Raghul