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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt | 19 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt index e6f235a0c4..a24d90529b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt @@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ patterns (see 'CONE PATTERN SET' below). + When the `--stdin` option is provided, the patterns are read from standard in as a newline-delimited list instead of from the arguments. ++ +When `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is enabled, the input list is considered a +list of directories instead of sparse-checkout patterns. The command writes +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. The input format matches the output of `git ls-tree --name-only`. +This includes interpreting pathnames that begin with a double quote (") as +C-style quoted strings. 'disable':: Disable the `core.sparseCheckout` config setting, and restore the @@ -110,7 +118,7 @@ The full pattern set allows for arbitrary pattern matches and complicated inclusion/exclusion rules. These can result in O(N*M) pattern matches when updating the index, where N is the number of patterns and M is the number of paths in the index. To combat this performance issue, a more restricted -pattern set is allowed when `core.spareCheckoutCone` is enabled. +pattern set is allowed when `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is enabled. The accepted patterns in the cone pattern set are: @@ -132,9 +140,12 @@ the following patterns: ---------------- This says "include everything in root, but nothing two levels below root." -If we then add the folder `A/B/C` as a recursive pattern, the folders `A` and -`A/B` are added as parent patterns. The resulting sparse-checkout file is -now + +When in cone mode, the `git sparse-checkout set` subcommand takes a list of +directories instead of a list of sparse-checkout patterns. In this mode, +the command `git sparse-checkout set A/B/C` sets the directory `A/B/C` as +a recursive pattern, the directories `A` and `A/B` are added as parent +patterns. The resulting sparse-checkout file is now ---------------- /* |