From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:16:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Harden the sparse-checkout builtin
Message-ID: <xmqqzheoil82.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.513.git.1579029962.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, let's improve Git's response to these more complicated scenarios:
>
>  1. Running "git sparse-checkout init" in a worktree would complain because
>     the "info" dir doesn't exist.
>  2. Tracked paths that include "*" and "" in their filenames.
>  3. If a user edits the sparse-checkout file to have non-cone pattern, such
>     as "*" anywhere or "" in the wrong place, then we should respond
>     appropriately. That is: warn that the patterns are not cone-mode, then
>     revert to the old logic.

It seems somebody ate a letter to make "<some letter>" into "" an
empty string, so I cannot quite grok the above list---two out of
three bullet points are not quite readable.