{"thread":{"id":"28793","subject":"sparse checkout using exclusions","startedAt":"2011-10-29T00:17:54Z","lastAt":"2011-10-31T20:16:13Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Eric Raible","Ramkumar Ramachandra"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"178502","messageId":"4EAB4632.5080101@nextest.com","threadId":"28793","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"sparse checkout using exclusions","fromName":"Eric Raible","fromEmail":"raible@nextest.com","sentAt":"2011-10-29T00:17:54Z","receivedAt":"2011-10-29T00:17:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"raible@nextest.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi all.\n\nI was just about to send a long message about using exclusions\nin sparse-checkout, when I did one last search and saw that all\nof my problems were fixed by using '/*' instead of '*' as the\nfirst line in .git/info/sparse-checkout.\n\nMight it make sense for the example in git-read-tree.html to be\nupdated to include the leading slash?\n\n    /*\n    !unwanted\n\n- Eric\n"},{"id":"178506","messageId":"CALkWK0=X4O9jBbx_ZDXbtnDCmTb9fHbm13Z-pqTNBooA0Z=c0g@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"28793","inReplyTo":"4EAB4632.5080101@nextest.com","subject":"Re: sparse checkout using exclusions","fromName":"Ramkumar Ramachandra","fromEmail":"artagnon@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-10-29T05:46:38Z","receivedAt":"2011-10-29T05:46:38Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"r@artagnon.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37226?v=4"},"body":"Hi Eric,\n\nEric Raible writes:\n> Might it make sense for the example in git-read-tree.html to be\n> updated to include the leading slash?\n\nThis issue was fixed in 5e821231 (git-read-tree.txt: update sparse\ncheckout examples, 2011-09-26).\n\nCheers.\n\n-- Ram\n"},{"id":"178575","messageId":"4EAF020D.9090305@nextest.com","threadId":"28793","inReplyTo":"CALkWK0=X4O9jBbx_ZDXbtnDCmTb9fHbm13Z-pqTNBooA0Z=c0g@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: sparse checkout using exclusions","fromName":"Eric Raible","fromEmail":"raible@nextest.com","sentAt":"2011-10-31T20:16:13Z","receivedAt":"2011-10-31T20:16:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"raible@nextest.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 10/28/2011 10:46 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:\n> \n> This issue was fixed in 5e821231 (git-read-tree.txt: update sparse\n> checkout examples, 2011-09-26).\n> \n> Cheers.\n> \n> -- Ram\n\ngit tag -l --contains => v1.7.8-rc0\n\nI'm running 1.7.7.1.msysgit.0, so I don't have it yet.\nAnd neither do any of the online man pages I could find.\n\nBut I'm happy that it's fixed.  And the commit message is\nbetter than what I would have come up with.\n\nThanks - Eric\n"}]}