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authorLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2010-07-25 16:30:32 +0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-07-25 23:14:18 -0700
commitcdad3c54f1020b0b1c0d2d907748f77a60b41a28 (patch)
treed0633352a80f5e96f822cd1da3145f1a96162762
parentINSTALL: configure /etc/xml/catalog to build docs on Cygwin (diff)
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git-read-tree.txt: acknowledge the directory matching bug in sparse checkout
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index f6037c4f6a..2e78da448f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -412,6 +412,13 @@ turn `core.sparseCheckout` on in order to have sparse checkout
support.
+BUGS
+----
+In order to match a directory with $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout,
+trailing slash must be used. The form without trailing slash, while
+works with .gitignore, does not work with sparse checkout.
+
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-write-tree[1]; linkgit:git-ls-files[1];