From: Lessley Dennington Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:25:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sparse-checkout: custom tab completion tests Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 12/31/21 4:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Elijah Newren writes: > >> Second, and this item is unrelated to your series but your comment >> made me realize it....sparse-checkout unfortunately ignores prefix and >> creates a bad .git/info/sparse-checkout file. For example: >> ... >> I think the loss of the current working directory will be fixed by the >> en/keep-cwd directory (currently in next and marked for merging to >> master), but the fact that the wrong paths end up in the >> sparse-checkout file is unfortunate. It basically means that the >> `set` and `add` subcommands of `sparse-checkout` can only be safely >> run from the toplevel directory. > > You made it sound as if this is a fundamental limitation, but it > sounds more like a bug that needs to be fixed (outside the > completion series, of course) to me. > I can file a bug report if that's the correct way to proceed.