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Re: "Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory" all the time on Windows 7 on Git 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Feb 6, 2014, 13:20 UTC
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Am 2/6/2014 12:54, schrieb konstunn@ngs.ru:
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> However I typed the checkout directory in file
> ..git/info/sparse-checkout by using different formats with
> and without the leading and the trailing slashes, with and
> without asterisk after trailing slash, having tried all
> the possible combinations, but, all the same,
> nevertheless, the error occured.

Make sure that you do not use CRLF line terminators in the sparse-checkout file.

-- Hannes
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