Re: bug report

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2021, 04:29 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8rxuj8s8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAHPjYFyzPpUmfoCbvaVg25ZbhkHU8QtxHBmAh2gdT++Xr38HcQ@mail.gmail.com>

Theodore Li <teddy.litheodore@gmail.com> writes:

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> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
>
> 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.).

A blind guess, as I do not use sparse patterns, but perhaps you did not quote the "/*' pattern, i.e. you typed

    $ git sparse-checkout set /*

where you would have got a better behaviour if you typed

    $ git sparse-checkout set "/*"