On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 6:06 PM Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> wrote: > > While I was playing with this patch, I did the following: > > echo a >a > echo b >b > git add . > git commit -m files > git sparse-checkout set a > echo c >c > git add c > > And the last `git add` was successful in adding the untracked `c` file > which is outside the sparse checkout. I'm not sure if I'm doing > something wrong, but it seems that `path_in_sparse_checkout()` returns > UNDECIDED for `c`. Is it because there was no pattern in the list > explicitly excluding it? And if so, should we consider UNDECIDED as > NOT_MATCHED for `path_in_sparse_checkout()`? Please disconsider this, It was my fault indeed. I had applied the patches onto the wrong base. Now I fetched them again but from the GGG tag, and my manual test worked as expected.
