Re: bug report

Yes, though other patterns like !/*/ don't need the quotes. I thought
it worked the same way without the quotes in earlier versions, but
after testing with version 2.32.0, it seems like the behavior is the
same. Guess I remembered wrong.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:30 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Theodore Li [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
After cloning a remote repository with the --no-checkout option and
executing git sparse-checkout init, the bug occurs with any
sparse-checkout command with the /* pattern (i.e. git sparse-checkout
set /*).

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
The contents of .git/info/sparse-checkout and the output of git
sparse-checkout list should be '/*'

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
Instead, the output is the contents of the user's local root directory
(i.e. /bin, /boot, /cdrom, etc.).

A blind guess, as I do not use sparse patterns, but perhaps you did
not quote the "/*' pattern, i.e. you typed

    $ git sparse-checkout set /*

where you would have got a better behaviour if you typed

    $ git sparse-checkout set "/*"

?