Hi, Please see http://pastebin.com/zMXvvXuy It shows that if the .git/info/sparsecheckout file is in windows format (windows line ending) then it doesn't work. Thanks for any advice. This is git 1.8.3.msysgit.0 Martin -- 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