I only wanted to make sure git sparse-checkout set --end-of-options path work fine, but it turns out that there were other sloppiness that has nothing to do with the end-of-options handling that needs to be adjusted to the new world order, so I ended up addressing that as well. Junio C Hamano (3): sparse-checkout: take care of "--end-of-options" in set/add sparse-checkout: allow default patterns for 'set' only !stdin sparse-checkout: tighten add_patterns_from_input() builtin/sparse-checkout.c | 9 ++++++++- parse-options.c | 8 ++++++++ parse-options.h | 2 ++ t/t1090-sparse-checkout-scope.sh | 8 ++++++++ t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh | 13 +++++++++++-- 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0-174-g055bb6e996