Hi all, I'm facing an issue with negative patterns in cone mode. I can't tell from the docs or git code if I misunderstand the usage, am trying something not supported, or if there is a bug. What I want to do is exclude a small number of directories (and their subdirectories) from a large repo, without explicitly declaring all the other directories that I wish to keep. My directory structure is: root ^----A ^----B ^----C My sparse-checkout file is: /* !/A/B/ I've set up an MRE: 1. git clone --sparse https://github.com/peakschris/sparse.git 2. cd sparse 3. copy sparse-checkout.txt .git\info\sparse-checkout 4. git sparse-checkout reapply Output: git sparse-checkout reapply warning: unrecognized negative pattern: '/A/B' warning: disabling cone pattern matching warning: unrecognized negative pattern: '/A/B' warning: disabling cone pattern matching Thanks! Chris
