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| author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2022-04-22 02:32:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-04-21 23:12:39 -0700 |
| commit | 5d4b2933407286ac2b76a1a66a04967a35d973f0 (patch) | |
| tree | f373169358b25c3e6716105032d18c7e4249c081 /Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt | |
| parent | a8defed07cb4c287306d228b2e9f03d1195f5395 (diff) | |
| download | git-5d4b2933407286ac2b76a1a66a04967a35d973f0.tar.gz | |
Documentation: some sparsity wording clarifications
Improve the wording for a couple paragraphs in two different manuals
relating to sparse behavior.
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt index c65d0ce96b..3776705bf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This command is used to create sparse checkouts, which means that it -changes the working tree from having all tracked files present, to only -have a subset of them. It can also switch which subset of files are -present, or undo and go back to having all tracked files present in the -working copy. +This command is used to create sparse checkouts, which change the +working tree from having all tracked files present to only having a +subset of those files. It can also switch which subset of files are +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 (the default), or by providing a list of patterns in |