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| author |  Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> | 2011-09-26 09:09:15 +1000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-09-26 10:00:44 -0700 |
| commit | 5e82123197229d823a5838126dce20f33f82fe27 (patch) | |
| tree | 98c0c48694962978dc508f70259c3985939ebffa /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 1.7.6 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-5e82123197229d823a5838126dce20f33f82fe27.tar.xz | |
git-read-tree.txt: update sparse checkout examples
The negation example uses '*' to match everything. This used to work
before 9037026 (unpack-trees: fix sparse checkout's "unable to match
directories") because back then, the list of paths is used to match
sparse patterns, so with the patterns
*
!subdir/
subdir/ always matches any path that start with subdir/ and "*" has no
chance to get tested. The result is subdir is excluded.
After the said commit, a tree structure is dynamically created and
sparse pattern matching now follows closely how read_directory()
applies .gitignore. This solves one problem, but reveals another one.
With this new strategy, "!subdir/" rule will be only tested once when
"subdir" directory is examined. Entries inside subdir, when examined,
will match "*" and are (correctly) re-added again because any rules
without a slash will match at every directory level. In the end, "*"
can revert every negation rules.
In order to correctly exclude subdir, we must use
/*
!subdir
to limit "match all" rule at top level only.
"*" rule has no actual use in sparse checkout and can be confusing to
users. While we can automatically turn "*" to "/*", this violates
.gitignore definition. Instead, discourage "*" in favor of "/*" (in
the second example).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 46a96f2313..e9f4355d7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ files are in. You can also specify what files are _not_ in, using negate patterns. For example, to remove file "unwanted": ---------------- -* +/* !unwanted ---------------- @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ directory with the `$GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout` file content as follows: ---------------- -* +/* ---------------- Then you can disable sparse checkout. Sparse checkout support in "git |