sparse-checkout: load sparse-checkout patterns

A future feature will want to load the sparse-checkout patterns into a
pattern_list, but the current mechanism to do so is a bit complicated.
This is made difficult due to needing to find the sparse-checkout file
in different ways throughout the codebase.

The logic implemented in the new get_sparse_checkout_patterns() was
duplicated in populate_from_existing_patterns() in unpack-trees.c. Use
the new method instead, keeping the logic around handling the struct
unpack_trees_options.

The callers to get_sparse_checkout_filename() in
builtin/sparse-checkout.c manipulate the sparse-checkout file directly,
so it is not appropriate to replace logic in that file with
get_sparse_checkout_patterns().

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
index e3140db2a0..2306a9ad98 100644
--- a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ static char const * const builtin_sparse_checkout_usage[] = {
 	NULL
 };
 
-static char *get_sparse_checkout_filename(void)
-{
-	return git_pathdup("info/sparse-checkout");
-}
-
 static void write_patterns_to_file(FILE *fp, struct pattern_list *pl)
 {
 	int i;