Re: [PATCH v3] checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout mode

[Duy Nguyen]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Müller  Kirill
 wrote:
> Thank you, this looks nice. What needs to be done that this will
> eventually reach the git in my favorite distribution? Which version of
> Git will this be?

It'll be in the upcoming 1.8.3.
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Re: [PATCH v3] checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout mode

[Müller Kirill]

Thank you, this looks nice. What needs to be done that this will
eventually reach the git in my favorite distribution? Which version of
Git will this be?


Cheers

Kirill


On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 09:12 +1000, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> "git checkout -- " is usually used to restore all modified
> files in . In sparse checkout mode, this command is overloaded
> with another meaning: to add back all files in  that are
> excluded by sparse patterns.
> 
> As the former makes more sense for day-to-day use. Switch it to the
> default and the latter enabled with --ignore-skip-worktree-bits.