Here's a simple reproducible bug - something unexpected in sparse-checkout mode:
$ git clone g...@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 | 7.98 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (26530/26530), done. $ cd jekyll $ ls $ git config core.sparsecheckout true $ echo 'docs*' > .git/info/sparse-checkout $ git read-tree -mu HEAD $ ls docs rake I didn't expect to see 'rake' amongst the results. If I take out the asterisk on the echo line, only 'docs' is checked out after the read-tree operation. Even if asterisk isn't allowed, I'd not expect it to fail in that way. Sparse checkout documentation is a little . .. . sparse it has to be said (sorry). As it happens, I have some more complicated cases where sparse-checkout is doing the wrong thing in the working copy - and I'll work towards reproduction of that/those after this. Best to start with a simple reproducible case in case there's a simple fix for more that one similar bug. Regards, - Paul
