Well I feel a bit silly. Thanks for responding.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:21:19PM -0500, Paul Hammant wrote:
>
>> Related bug (maybe the same). Reproduction:
>>
>> $ git clone git@github.com:jekyll/jekyll.git --no-checkout
>> Cloning into 'jekyll'...
>> remote: Counting objects: 41331, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
>> remote: Total 41331 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 41326
>> Receiving objects: 100% (41331/41331), 11.91 MiB | 9.15 MiB/s, done.
>> Resolving deltas: 100% (26530/26530), done.
>> $ cd jekyll
>> $ git config core.sparsecheckout true
>> $ echo 'CONDUCT.markdown' > .git/info/sparse-checkout
>> $ echo 'Gemfile' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
>> $ echo 'Rakefile' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
>> $ echo 'appveyor.yml' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
>> $ git checkout --
>> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
>> $ ls
>> CONDUCT.markdown Gemfile Rakefile appveyor.yml lib
>>
>> I was not expecting to see 'lib' in the resulting file list
>
> Yep, I think this is the same problem. Inside lib, you get only
> "lib/theme_template/Gemfile", because it matches your unanchored
> pattern. Using "/Gemfile" in the sparse-checkout file fixes it.
>
> -Peff
