Re: [PATCH] sparse-checkout: avoid staging deletions of all files

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

    list_files() {
            # Do not replace this with 'ls "$1"', as "ls" with BSD-lineage
            # enables "-A" by default for root and ends up including ".git" and
            # such in its output. (Note, though, that running the test suite as
            # root is generally not recommended.)
            (cd "$1" && printf '%s\n' *)
    }

An unrelated tangent, but it took me more time than necessary to
find where these "macros" are defined because

	git grep 'check_files () {'

found no matches.  That is why I prefer to stress about styles (no,
looking for "check_files *()" is not a solution).