Hello everyone! See the following bug report pertaining to sparse-checkout
when run outside top-level directories.
Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
$ git init -b main tmp
$ cd tmp
$ mkdir -p a/b/c
$ touch a/b/c/d a/b/c/e
$ git add a/
$ git commit -m "initial"
$ cd a/ # Not at the top level anymore
$ git sparse-checkout set --cone b/c
$ git -C .. sparse-checkout list
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
We expected the output sparsity path to be a/b/c.
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
The output was b/c. Running $ cat ../.git/info/sparse-checkout
showed that the paths in this file were incorrect:
/*
!/*/
/b/
!/b/*/
/b/c/
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
The output path and the paths in the sparse-checkout file are missing the
expected 'a' prefix. This means that the `set` and `add` subcommands of
`sparse-checkout` can only be safely run from a repo's top-level directory.
Anything else you want to add:
This was discovered by newren@xxxxxxxxx in my recent tab-completion
series. You can find additional context at [1].
Please review the rest of the bug report below.
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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.34.1.88.gcecf501e07.dirty (local build, based off
en/sparse-checkout-set)
cpu: x86_64
shell-path: /bin/zsh
uname: Darwin
compiler info:
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr
--with-gxx-include-dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple clang version 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh
-Lessley
[1]:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BGdr54XgCXw8k1xRCgkwBtDonyODS3O+_nS_QY3SOEFGQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
