When creating the sparse-checkout file, Git does not create the leading directory, "$GIT_DIR/info", if it does not exist. This causes problems if the repository does not have that directory. Therefore, ensure that the leading directory is created. This is the only "open" in builtin/sparse-checkout.c that does not have a leading directory check. (The other one in write_patterns_and_update() does.) Note that the test needs to explicitly specify a template when running "git init" because the default template used in the tests has the "info/" directory included. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This problem is being discussed in [1], and we also noticed this problem internally at $DAYJOB. Here's a fix. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/db6f47a3-0df3-505b-b391-6ca289fd61b5@xxxxxxxxx/ --- builtin/sparse-checkout.c | 3 +++ t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c index 679c107036..2b0e1db2d2 100644 --- a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c +++ b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c @@ -471,6 +471,9 @@ static int sparse_checkout_init(int argc, const char **argv) FILE *fp; /* assume we are in a fresh repo, but update the sparse-checkout file */ + if (safe_create_leading_directories(sparse_filename)) + die(_("unable to create leading directories of %s"), + sparse_filename); fp = xfopen(sparse_filename, "w"); if (!fp) die(_("failed to open '%s'"), sparse_filename); diff --git a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh index 42776984fe..dba0737599 100755 --- a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh +++ b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh @@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ test_expect_success 'git sparse-checkout init' ' check_files repo a ' +test_expect_success 'git sparse-checkout init in empty repo' ' + test_when_finished rm -rf empty-repo blank-template && + mkdir blank-template && + git init --template=blank-template empty-repo && + git -C empty-repo sparse-checkout init +' + test_expect_success 'git sparse-checkout list after init' ' git -C repo sparse-checkout list >actual && cat >expect <<-\EOF && -- 2.34.1.703.g22d0c6ccf7-goog
