Re: sparse checkout - weird behavior

Well I feel a bit silly. Thanks for responding.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:21:19PM -0500, Paul Hammant wrote:

quoted

Related bug (maybe the same). Reproduction:

  $ 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 | 9.15 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (26530/26530), done.
  $ cd jekyll
  $ git config core.sparsecheckout true
  $ echo 'CONDUCT.markdown' > .git/info/sparse-checkout
  $ echo 'Gemfile' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
  $ echo 'Rakefile' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
  $ echo 'appveyor.yml' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
  $ git checkout --
  Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
  $ ls
  CONDUCT.markdown Gemfile Rakefile appveyor.yml lib

I was not expecting to see 'lib' in the resulting file list

Yep, I think this is the same problem. Inside lib, you get only
"lib/theme_template/Gemfile", because it matches your unanchored
pattern. Using "/Gemfile" in the sparse-checkout file fixes it.

-Peff