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sparse checkout using exclusions

From
EREric Raible <raible@nextest.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2011, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID
<4EAB4632.5080101@nextest.com>
Hi all.

I was just about to send a long message about using exclusions in sparse-checkout, when I did one last search and saw that all of my problems were fixed by using '/*' instead of '*' as the first line in .git/info/sparse-checkout.

Might it make sense for the example in git-read-tree.html to be updated to include the leading slash?

    /*
    !unwanted
- Eric
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  1. Eric RaibleOct 29, 2011
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraOct 29, 2011
  3. Eric RaibleOct 31, 2011

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