Re: git sparse-checkout set not working in git 2.27.0

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2020, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BFRX3MPn=jw+Ezdx1pmxVF9SJw7Mxhk5cS5KUrXFJmM=w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801d64010$565b0b70$03112250$@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:52 AM Alasdair Hurst <alasdairhurst@gmail.com> wrote:

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> In git 2.27.0 sparse-checkout doesn't seem to work the same as it did in
> 2.25.0:
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> Version: git version 2.27.0.windows.1 (the same behavior occurs on 2.27.0 on
> linux too)
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> Commands:
> -git clone git@repo.com:user/repo <mailto:git@repo.com:user/repo>
> --no-checkout --depth 1 sparse-repo
>
> -cd sparse-repo
>
> -git sparse-checkout init
>
> -git sparse-checkout add packages
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> Expected behavior (as seen in 0.25):
>
> -ls
> packages
>
> The packages directory is checked out and available the repo root.
>
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> Current behavior
>
> -ls
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> No packages directory is checked out and the root is empty.

Thanks for the report; this was fixed by commit b5bfc08a97 ("sparse-checkout: avoid staging deletions of all files", 2020-06-05), currently cooking in the 'next' branch of git.git. See the thread at https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.801.v2.git.git.1591324899170.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ if you want to read up on it.