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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.).

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? It should set sparse-checkout to the pattern /*, corresponding to the remote repository's root directory instead of adding all the folders and files in the root directory of the user's local machine.

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[System Info] git version: git version 2.33.1 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh compiler info: gnuc: 9.3 libc info: glibc: 2.31 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash

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