From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:43:46 GMT Subject: [PATCH] last-modified: support sparse checkouts Message-ID: From: Johannes Schindelin In a sparse checkout, a user might want to run `last-modified` on a directory outside the worktree. And even in non-sparse checkouts, a user might need to run that command on a directory that does not exist in the worktree. These use cases should be supported via the `--` separator between revision and file arguments, which is even advertised in the documentation. This patch fixes a tiny bug that prevents that from working. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5978 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- last-modified: support sparse checkouts Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2013%2Fdscho%2Flast-modified-vs-sparse-checkouts-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2013/dscho/last-modified-vs-sparse-checkouts-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2013 builtin/last-modified.c | 3 ++- t/t8020-last-modified.sh | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/last-modified.c b/builtin/last-modified.c index b0ecbdc540..dc1e229f4d 100644 --- a/builtin/last-modified.c +++ b/builtin/last-modified.c @@ -525,7 +525,8 @@ int cmd_last_modified(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, last_modified_options, last_modified_usage, - PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 | PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT); + PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 | PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT | + PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH); repo_config(repo, git_default_config, NULL); diff --git a/t/t8020-last-modified.sh b/t/t8020-last-modified.sh index a4c1114ee2..50f4312f71 100755 --- a/t/t8020-last-modified.sh +++ b/t/t8020-last-modified.sh @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ test_expect_success 'last-modified subdir' ' EOF ' +test_expect_success 'last-modified in sparse checkout' ' + test_when_finished "git sparse-checkout disable" && + git sparse-checkout set b && + check_last_modified -- a <<-\EOF + 3 a + EOF +' + test_expect_success 'last-modified subdir recursive' ' check_last_modified -r a <<-\EOF 3 a/b/file base-commit: 9a2fb147f2c61d0cab52c883e7e26f5b7948e3ed -- gitgitgadget