Re: git sparse checkout exclusions not working?

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2011, 12:10 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=m4hcs7pVgn0rkQktmZaqK_ORxaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinPg_jaxiF8yFtnf4BrT4fx-BQ=+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:35 PM,  <skillzero@gmail.com> wrote:

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> It seems like ! patterns in the sparse-checkout file don't exclude
> individual files in a directory. Here's what I did:
>
> ...
>
> The "test1" directory was included, but "test1/file2.txt" wasn't
> excluded even though I added a ! pattern for it. The test2 directory
> was correctly excluded so that makes me think sparse was working in
> general, but just not respecting the ! pattern in this case.
>
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

I can reproduce it too. It looks like a regression from whole-directory matching. If a directory is matched, all files inside are considered "in". Let's see if I can come up with something this weekend.

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Duy