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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Paul Hammant <paul@hammant.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparse checkout - weird behavior
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:57:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170126045701.eouw5kzyq5bevc5c@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+298Uh=bfCJq3hmVdGUsinAgKFQd86em_J_8fwB9jQR5PZVgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:59:38PM -0500, Paul Hammant wrote:

> Here's a simple reproducible bug - something unexpected in sparse-checkout mode:
> 
>   $ git clone git@github.com:jekyll/jekyll.git --no-checkout
>   Cloning into 'jekyll'...
>   remote: Counting objects: 41331, done.
>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
>   remote: Total 41331 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 41326
>   Receiving objects: 100% (41331/41331), 11.91 MiB | 7.98 MiB/s, done.
>   Resolving deltas: 100% (26530/26530), done.
>   $ cd jekyll
>   $ ls
>   $ git config core.sparsecheckout true
>   $ echo 'docs*' > .git/info/sparse-checkout
>   $ git read-tree -mu HEAD
>   $ ls
>   docs rake
> 
> I didn't expect to see 'rake' amongst the results.

If you look inside the rake/ directory, you should see that only
"docs.rake" was checked out.

The sparse-checkout file uses the same parser as .git/info/exclude. One
important aspect of that file is that entries are _not_ left-anchored
unless they start with "/". So you asked Git to include files named
"docs*" anywhere in the tree.

You probably wanted just:

  echo /docs >.git/info/sparse-checkout

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-26  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-26  2:59 sparse checkout - weird behavior Paul Hammant
2017-01-26  4:57 ` Jeff King [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-01-26  3:21 Paul Hammant
2017-01-26  4:59 ` Jeff King
2017-01-26 11:20   ` Paul Hammant

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