----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Soffian
Date: 9/24/2011 1:50 PM
I wanted to exclude a single massive directory from a checkout (the
LayoutTests directory from WebKit, which includes 130k files), so I
tried:
$ git config core.sparsecheckout true
$ echo '*'> .git/info/sparse-checkout
$ echo '!LayoutTests'>> .git/info/sparse-checkout
$ git read-tree -m -u HEAD
But LayoutTests is not being excluded. I also tried every variation of
including leading/trailing slash and trailing '*'.
This bug has very recently been discussed on the mailing list.
As a workaround, use:
/*
instead of:
*
You said you have tried this already, but it works for me. The only
thing I do in addition is this:
/*
!LayoutTests/
-Josh
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