Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes: > > As a user I agree that "/" should mean "everything under the sky" and > your use case should work (i.e. it is broken in 1.7.10.2). If you can > build git, you can try the patch below. I'll submit a patch for > inclusion to git later (perhaps with optimization for this special case). > Many Thanks Duy!, that patch works so please do submit the patch. That just leaves the other issue I noted in my original posting - if I exclude a path from the top-level with a 1.7.2.5 format sparse-checkout file, git 1.7.10.2 will exclude a sub-directory with the same name: / !exclude/ Unfortunately (for me), I think this is correct behaviour of 1.7.10.2 because in 1.7.10.2 you can now do: / !/exclude/ /exlucde/reinclude/ which makes sense and correctly excludes "/exclude", but not "/exclude/reinclude/exclude". The flexibility to have: / !CVS/ or something like that is required; so I don't believe should be changed? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html