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author | Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> | 2011-09-22 21:24:23 +1000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-09-22 11:35:48 -0700 |
commit | a7bc906f2e64f0d9d3fec91964dc38e390ef69a1 (patch) | |
tree | ea71f938418eb3a972a5282e0f91585c68315d99 /unpack-trees.c | |
parent | 17d26a4d0485229c24b649013a40d5928ba223cc (diff) | |
download | git-a7bc906f2e64f0d9d3fec91964dc38e390ef69a1.tar.gz |
Add explanation why we do not allow to sparse checkout to empty working treend/maint-sparse-errors
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'unpack-trees.c')
-rw-r--r-- | unpack-trees.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c index 8d4fbaa4ad..0f205903e1 100644 --- a/unpack-trees.c +++ b/unpack-trees.c @@ -1119,8 +1119,13 @@ int unpack_trees(unsigned len, struct tree_desc *t, struct unpack_trees_options } if (ret < 0) goto return_failed; + /* + * Sparse checkout is meant to narrow down checkout area + * but it does not make sense to narrow down to empty working + * tree. This is usually a mistake in sparse checkout rules. + * Do not allow users to do that. + */ if (o->result.cache_nr && empty_worktree) { - /* dubious---why should this fail??? */ ret = unpack_failed(o, "Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory"); goto done; } |