On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:21:19PM -0500, Paul Hammant wrote: > Related bug (maybe the same). Reproduction: > > $ git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx: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