From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:43:16 GMT Subject: Re: sparse support in pu Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> >> 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