"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Also, let's improve Git's response to these more complicated scenarios: > > 1. Running "git sparse-checkout init" in a worktree would complain because > the "info" dir doesn't exist. > 2. Tracked paths that include "*" and "" in their filenames. > 3. If a user edits the sparse-checkout file to have non-cone pattern, such > as "*" anywhere or "" in the wrong place, then we should respond > appropriately. That is: warn that the patterns are not cone-mode, then > revert to the old logic. It seems somebody ate a letter to make "<some letter>" into "" an empty string, so I cannot quite grok the above list---two out of three bullet points are not quite readable.