On 10/12/2019 6:16 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:08 PM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> From: Derrick Stolee <dsto...@microsoft.com> >> >> The read-tree builtin has a --verbose option that signals to show >> progress and other data while updating the index. Update this to >> be on by default when stderr is a terminal window. >> >> This will help tools like 'git sparse-checkout' to automatically >> benefit from progress indicators when a user runs these commands. > > This change seems fine, but in patch 2 you said: > >> The use of running another process for 'git read-tree' is sub- >> optimal. This will be removed in a later change. > > leaving me slightly confused about the goal/plan.
True, this is not necessary for the whole series. I created this patch as a way to show progress in our microsoft/git fork [1], then removed the read-tree call in a later change [2]. When preparing v3, I took all of the changes together. I thought this was valuable on its own, for those users who are using the old mechanisms for sparse-checkout updates. Thanks, -Stolee [1] https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/200 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/204
