Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Interesting, as $GIT_DIR/info is created during "git init". But it is possible to lose the directory if there is no need for any of the files---the user may rmdir or rm -fr it, and it is too harsh to call the repository "corrupted". Will queue.
