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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-read-tree.txt7
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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];