Re: [PATCH] sparse-checkout: improve OS ls compatibility

Ed Maste [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Note that the helper function's name no longer reflects what it does
with such a change, so it needs to be renamed.  Together with style
fix, perhaps

        ls_no_dot () {
                (cd "$1" && printf "%s\n *)
        }

is what we want,

I believe the tests should pass or be skipped when run as root, so I
think we should either require (something like) SANITY for these
tests, or make the change above. I'm happy with either option; I'll
send a v2 based on the approach above for consideration.

OK, after thinking about it a bit more, I think "Your ls is broken"
was completely missing the point.  What we want in the callers of
this helper is to list the contents of a directory, and "ls" is one
possible (and easiest, if there were no "oops, sometimes -A is enabled
 implementation by default" complication) implementation.

And "ls_no_dot" is a misnomer from that point of view.  We are not
even using "ls", so perhaps we should just call it "list_files" or
something?

Thanks.