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Re: Bug report - sparse-checkout ignores prefix when run in subdirectories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jan 5, 2022, 23:29 UTC
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Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
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> So, should "**.py" go directly into the sparse-checkout file as-is, or
> be translated to "my/current/subdir/**.py" first?
>
> Maybe translating is always fine, or maybe we want to throw an error
> when: (not using cone mode and prefix is non-empty and any patterns
> are provided).
>
> Thoughts?

Perhaps allow things like ":(glob,icase,top)frotz" to be passed and treating them as pathspec is the most sensible way to go outside the cone mode? As far as I understand, the cone mode is a strict subset that is straight-jacketed into "no patterns allowed, just concrete directory names and nothing else" for simplicity, so it is perfectly OK for these two to be taking different things.

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  3. Elijah NewrenJan 5, 2022
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