Raghul Nanth A wrote:

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?

You should be able to find that branch in the https://github.com/gitster/git
remote.

  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