From 2d95707a02ffd68933f8af0fa76090bea908d376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elijah Newren Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:32:19 +0000 Subject: sparse-checkout: make --cone the default Make cone mode the default, and update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt index 88e55f432f..7308e744c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ present, or undo and go back to having all tracked files present in the working copy. The subset of files is chosen by providing a list of directories in -cone mode (which is recommended), or by providing a list of patterns -in non-cone mode. +cone mode (the default), or by providing a list of patterns in +non-cone mode. When in a sparse-checkout, other Git commands behave a bit differently. For example, switching branches will not update paths outside the @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ When the `--stdin` option is provided, the directories or patterns are read from standard in as a newline-delimited list instead of from the arguments. + -When `--cone` is passed or `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is enabled, the +When `--cone` is passed or `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is not false, the input list is considered a list of directories. This allows for better performance with a limited set of patterns (see 'CONE PATTERN SET' below). The input format matches the output of `git ls-tree @@ -68,10 +68,9 @@ SET' below). The input format matches the output of `git ls-tree double quote (") as C-style quoted strings. Note that the set command will write patterns to the sparse-checkout file to include all files contained in those directories (recursively) as well as files that are -siblings of ancestor directories. This may become the default in the -future; --no-cone can be passed to request non-cone mode. +siblings of ancestor directories. + -When `--no-cone` is passed or `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is not enabled, +When `--no-cone` is passed or `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is set to false, the input list is considered a list of patterns. This mode is harder to use and less performant, and is thus not recommended. See the "Sparse Checkout" section of linkgit:git-read-tree[1] and the "Pattern @@ -227,10 +226,11 @@ patterns. The resulting sparse-checkout file is now Here, order matters, so the negative patterns are overridden by the positive patterns that appear lower in the file. -If `core.sparseCheckoutCone=true`, then Git will parse the sparse-checkout file -expecting patterns of these types. Git will warn if the patterns do not match. -If the patterns do match the expected format, then Git will use faster hash- -based algorithms to compute inclusion in the sparse-checkout. +Unless `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is explicitly set to `false`, Git will +parse the sparse-checkout file expecting patterns of these types. Git will +warn if the patterns do not match. If the patterns do match the expected +format, then Git will use faster hash-based algorithms to compute inclusion +in the sparse-checkout. In the cone mode case, the `git sparse-checkout list` subcommand will list the directories that define the recursive patterns. For the example sparse-checkout -- cgit v1.2.3