Re: [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] --sparse for porcelains

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:34 AM, <skillzero@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is e.g. question if "git grep" should search "no-checkout" files;
>> in the "assume-unchanged" case it should, I think, search index version.
>
> I would like it to git grep to not search paths outside the sparse
> area (although --no-sparse would be nice for git grep in case you did
> want to search everything). The main reason I want sparse checkouts is
> for performance reasons. For example, git grep can take 10 minutes on
> my full repository so excluding paths outside the sparse area would
> reduce that to a few seconds.

That's a porcelain question that I'd leave it for now. FWIW you can do
something like this:

git ls-files -v|grep '^H'|cut -c 2-|xargs git grep

/me misses "cleartool find"
-- 
Duy