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From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Subject: Re: sparse checkout bug?
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----- 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