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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Lessley Dennington <lessleydennington@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug report - sparse-checkout ignores prefix when run in subdirectories
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:29:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbl0pg3s7.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BH5woi6KY7OBpnsS-M2EmgLHii9zs8rSwrgcPFkOAvn_A@mail.gmail.com> (Elijah Newren's message of "Wed, 5 Jan 2022 15:19:58 -0800")

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> So, should "**.py" go directly into the sparse-checkout file as-is, or
> be translated to "my/current/subdir/**.py" first?
>
> Maybe translating is always fine, or maybe we want to throw an error
> when: (not using cone mode and prefix is non-empty and any patterns
> are provided).
>
> Thoughts?

Perhaps allow things like ":(glob,icase,top)frotz" to be passed and
treating them as pathspec is the most sensible way to go outside the
cone mode?  As far as I understand, the cone mode is a strict subset
that is straight-jacketed into "no patterns allowed, just concrete
directory names and nothing else" for simplicity, so it is perfectly
OK for these two to be taking different things.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-05 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-05 20:13 Bug report - sparse-checkout ignores prefix when run in subdirectories Lessley Dennington
2022-01-05 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-05 23:19   ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-05 23:29     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-01-06  0:08       ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-06  0:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-06  1:08           ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-06 19:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-27 16:43     ` Derrick Stolee
2022-01-27 17:30       ` Elijah Newren

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