Subject: Re: bug report

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:29:59 -0800

Theodore Li <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
>
> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> After cloning a remote repository with the --no-checkout option and
> executing git sparse-checkout init, the bug occurs with any
> sparse-checkout command with the /* pattern (i.e. git sparse-checkout
> set /*).
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> The contents of .git/info/sparse-checkout and the output of git
> sparse-checkout list should be '/*'
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> Instead, the output is the contents of the user's local root directory
> (i.e. /bin, /boot, /cdrom, etc.).

A blind guess, as I do not use sparse patterns, but perhaps you did
not quote the "/*' pattern, i.e. you typed

    $ git sparse-checkout set /*

where you would have got a better behaviour if you typed

    $ git sparse-checkout set "/*"

?