From: Philip Oakley Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:46:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] object-name: diagnose trees in index properly Message-ID: <2063f989-715a-93b2-a665-e6975d54c8b5@iee.email> In-Reply-To: <99c09ccc2406e4f54c620bd7fb2d1205386e23a6.1649349442.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> spelling nit On 07/04/2022 17:37, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Derrick Stolee > > When running 'git show :' where '' is a directory, then > there is a subtle difference between a full checkout and a sparse > checkout. The error message from diagnose_invalid_index_path() reports > whether the path is on disk or not. The full checkout will have the > directory on disk, but the path will not be in the index. The sparse > checokut could have the directory not exist, specifically when that s/checokut/checkout/ > directory is outside of the sparse-checkout cone. [...] -- Philip