| commit | 4ce504360bc3b240e570281fabe00a85027532c3 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | Sat Feb 19 16:44:44 2022 +0000 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Sun Feb 20 00:01:15 2022 -0800 |
| tree | e7340456e42b74d9a22cf9a8eb243e092105275f | |
| parent | bb8b5e9a90d607ec6144527c5019f56b6a81d862 [diff] |
sparse-checkout: error or warn when given individual files The set and add subcommands accept multiple positional arguments. The meaning of these arguments differs slightly in the two modes: Cone mode only accepts directories. If given a file, it would previously treat it as a directory, causing not just the file itself to be included but all sibling files as well -- likely against users' expectations. Throw an error if the specified path is a file in the index. Provide a --skip-checks argument to allow users to override (e.g. for the case when the given path IS a directory on another branch). Non-cone mode accepts general gitignore patterns. There are many reasons to avoid this mode, but one possible reason to use it instead of cone mode: to be able to select individual files within a directory. However, if a file is passed to set/add in non-cone mode, you won't be selecting a single file, you'll be selecting a file with the same name in any directory. Thus users will likely want to prefix any paths they specify with a leading '/' character; warn users if the patterns they specify exactly name a file because it means they are likely missing such a leading slash. Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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