Re: bug report

From: Theodore Li <teddy.litheodore@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2021, 06:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHPjYFyH+GuBG8QNzD36JhoJWyNnEXfqpn4PUJV0ANF2ertYZg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8rxuj8s8.fsf@gitster.g>

Yes, though other patterns like !/*/ don't need the quotes. I thought it worked the same way without the quotes in earlier versions, but after testing with version 2.32.0, it seems like the behavior is the same. Guess I remembered wrong.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:30 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Theodore Li <teddy.litheodore@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> > Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
> >
> > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> > After cloning a remote repository with the --no-checkout option and
> > executing git sparse-checkout init, the bug occurs with any
> > sparse-checkout command with the /* pattern (i.e. git sparse-checkout
> > set /*).
> >
> > What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> > The contents of .git/info/sparse-checkout and the output of git
> > sparse-checkout list should be '/*'
> >
> > What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> > Instead, the output is the contents of the user's local root directory
> > (i.e. /bin, /boot, /cdrom, etc.).
>
> A blind guess, as I do not use sparse patterns, but perhaps you did
> not quote the "/*' pattern, i.e. you typed
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>     $ git sparse-checkout set /*
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> where you would have got a better behaviour if you typed
>
>     $ git sparse-checkout set "/*"
>
> ?