Well I feel a bit silly. Thanks for responding.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:21:19PM -0500, Paul Hammant wrote: > >> Related bug (maybe the same). Reproduction: >> >> $ 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 | 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
