On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Martin Gregory <marting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Duy , > > re: [file created in gitbash] > >>> Thanks. Please send me the file created by windows shell. I suspected >>> that windows shell may save it in some funny encoding like utf-16.. > > > Strangely, I had sent the file created by the windows shell ahead of the one > created by gitbash, but here it is again :) Sorry I must have missed it. Anyway there is a trailing space at the end of the rule. This is the content of your sparse checkout file in C syntax "/CONFIGURATION\x20\r\n" Maybe we could warn about trailing spaces.. Stripping them automatically is a possibility, but we need an escape hatch for (crazy?) people who actually have trailing spaces in there paths. -- Duy -- 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