Re: sparse support in pu

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2009, 11:43 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0908170443r209cbe75xd361bffb4260c32b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908171113420.4991@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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>> >> 3. One thing that was confusing is that I needed a trailing slash on
>> >>    directories in .git/info/sparse to get them excluded. This seems
>> >>    different than .gitignore, which works for me without the trailing
>> >>    slash.
>> >
>> > Hmm.. probably because Git feeds directories to .gitignore handling
>> > functions. There is not much I can do, index does not have
>> > directories. I don't know if it's worth generating "directories" from
>> > index.
>>
>> Maybe just add a note in the documentation? If there's a default
>> .git/info/sparse file then it might be good place to put a note as well.
>
> I rather think that this should be fixed.  Maybe you can come up with a
> patch to the tests which shows this behavior (with test_expect_failure)?
> Then it will be much easier to come up with a fix.

Agreed. Thanks.

-- 
Duy