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From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sparse checkout bug?
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:19:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7E3B46.1040002@workspacewhiz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG+J_DwRPq69TUMOeqU5O9pv=cHZWEP1VJ1_NRaJv5BSFhF00g@mail.gmail.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Soffian
Date: 9/24/2011 1:50 PM
> I wanted to exclude a single massive directory from a checkout (the
> LayoutTests directory from WebKit, which includes 130k files), so I
> tried:
>
> $ git config core.sparsecheckout true
> $ echo '*'>  .git/info/sparse-checkout
> $ echo '!LayoutTests'>>  .git/info/sparse-checkout
> $ git read-tree -m -u HEAD
>
> But LayoutTests is not being excluded. I also tried every variation of
> including leading/trailing slash and trailing '*'.
>
This bug has very recently been discussed on the mailing list.

As a workaround, use:

/*

instead of:

*

You said you have tried this already, but it works for me.  The only 
thing I do in addition is this:

/*
!LayoutTests/

-Josh

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-24 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-24 19:50 sparse checkout bug? Jay Soffian
2011-09-24 20:19 ` Joshua Jensen [this message]

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