From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:19:18 GMT
Subject: Re: sparse checkout bug?
Message-ID: <4E7E3B46.1040002@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG+J_DwRPq69TUMOeqU5O9pv=cHZWEP1VJ1_NRaJv5BSFhF00g@mail.gmail.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Soffian
Date: 9/24/2011 1:50 PM
> I wanted to exclude a single massive directory from a checkout (the
> LayoutTests directory from WebKit, which includes 130k files), so I
> tried:
>
> $ git config core.sparsecheckout true
> $ echo '*'>  .git/info/sparse-checkout
> $ echo '!LayoutTests'>>  .git/info/sparse-checkout
> $ git read-tree -m -u HEAD
>
> But LayoutTests is not being excluded. I also tried every variation of
> including leading/trailing slash and trailing '*'.
>
This bug has very recently been discussed on the mailing list.

As a workaround, use:

/*

instead of:

*

You said you have tried this already, but it works for me.  The only 
thing I do in addition is this:

/*
!LayoutTests/

-Josh