Re: sparse checkout - weird behavior

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 26, 2017, 04:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20170126045936.wyleenuwunhrvbn2@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CA+298Ujx2wH2WnoYiOaWKoneBrF_E5VUXXSMqecGgNLYS0Wemg@mail.gmail.com>

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

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> 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