On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 01:56:11PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > Getting started with a sparse-checkout file can be daunting. Help > users start their sparse enlistment using 'git sparse-checkout init'. > This will set 'core.sparseCheckout=true' in their config, write > an initial set of patterns to the sparse-checkout file, and update > their working directory. Enabling sparse-checkout can remove modified files: $ mkdir dir $ touch foo dir/bar $ git add . $ git commit -m Initial [master (root-commit) ecc81bd] Initial 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 dir/bar create mode 100644 foo $ echo changes >dir/bar $ ~/src/git/git sparse-checkout init error: Entry 'dir/bar' not uptodate. Cannot update sparse checkout. error: failed to update index with new sparse-checkout paths $ cat dir/bar changes So far so good, my changes are still there. Unfortunately, however: $ git add -u $ ~/src/git/git sparse-checkout init $ echo $? 0 $ ls foo Uh-oh, my changes are gone.
