Are spare checkouts supported ?

Frédéric THOMAS

Hi,

First of all, congrats, that's a great product, really advanced and user friendly.

I was wondering if sourcetree supports spare checkouts as one of my repo has one but sourcetree doesn't seem to take it in account, everything is shown, I would expect it to show only what has been filtered by the spare config.

One more point, I'm on windows and in the panel "Working Copy Changes", if I do a CTRL+A to select all files, I can't unselect them after, even with the mouse, is there a special way to do that.

Thanks,

-Fred

stevestreeting

Glad you like SourceTree!

We don't support sparse-checkout at this time, although I'd expect git commands that are supposed to take it into account to obey any existing configuration. It's not something I've come across before - sparse checkouts were more useful in SVN when they actually saved you network bandwidth and a lot of disk space, but since Git has all the file changes in the repo anyway (and you don't have a choice about that), it didn't really seem that useful. You're the first person to ask about it, and I had to look it up to remind myself

There are a few foibles about the grid control that powers the file status panel right now, I've logged this. It's a very useful MS control but it does have a few little edge cases like this, I may end up switching it out for something else if I can't resolve it.