Lessley Dennington <lessleydennington@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hello everyone! See the following bug report pertaining to sparse-checkout
> when run outside top-level directories.
In a bug report it is fine, but "outside top-level" usually means
above the top-level of the working tree. Here, I think you meant
running in a subdirectory of the top-level.
Perhaps something along this line?
builtin/sparse-checkout.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git c/builtin/sparse-checkout.c w/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
index 45e838d8f8..4e5efbb85e 100644
--- c/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
+++ w/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
@@ -753,6 +753,16 @@ static int sparse_checkout_set(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (!core_sparse_checkout_cone && argc == 0) {
argv = default_patterns;
argc = default_patterns_nr;
+ } else if (argc && prefix && *prefix) {
+ /*
+ * The args are not pathspecs, so unfortunately we
+ * cannot imitate how cmd_add() uses parse_pathspec().
+ */
+ int i;
+ int prefix_len = strlen(prefix);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+ argv[i] = prefix_path(prefix, prefix_len, argv[i]);
}
return modify_pattern_list(argc, argv, set_opts.use_stdin, REPLACE);
