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[97.87.102.211]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v23sm25727990ioj.4.2022.01.05.06.05.18 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:05:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52d638fc-e7e7-1b0a-482b-cff7c9500b92@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 08:05:17 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sparse-checkout: custom tab completion tests Content-Language: en-US To: Elijah Newren Cc: Junio C Hamano , Lessley Dennington via GitGitGadget , Git Mailing List , Derrick Stolee , johannes.schindelin@gmail.com References: <955fcab00528464b5450bd22b45c89ffc2283e39.1640892413.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> From: Lessley Dennington In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 1/4/22 2:25 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:26 AM Lessley Dennington > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/31/21 4:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Elijah Newren writes: >>> >>>> Second, and this item is unrelated to your series but your comment >>>> made me realize it....sparse-checkout unfortunately ignores prefix and >>>> creates a bad .git/info/sparse-checkout file. For example: >>>> ... >>>> I think the loss of the current working directory will be fixed by the >>>> en/keep-cwd directory (currently in next and marked for merging to >>>> master), but the fact that the wrong paths end up in the >>>> sparse-checkout file is unfortunate. It basically means that the >>>> `set` and `add` subcommands of `sparse-checkout` can only be safely >>>> run from the toplevel directory. >>> >>> You made it sound as if this is a fundamental limitation, but it >>> sounds more like a bug that needs to be fixed (outside the >>> completion series, of course) to me. >>> >> I can file a bug report if that's the correct way to proceed. > > We don't really have a bug tracker. > > We often just file an email, and add additional searchable strings > (e.g. #leftoverbits, though that doesn't apply here), and then search > via https://lore.kernel.org/git/. > > There is 'git bugreport', but it just generates an email to send to > the mailing list...but we already have the emails in this thread. > > There is https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/list, which is used by > a few folks, but I suspect I'm the only one who has looked at it that > touches sparse-checkout related stuff. > > There is https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues, but this isn't > Windows specific. (Sometimes they'll track stuff that isn't windows > specific, but I've seen Dscho close out issues after being reported to > this list.) > > I've also kept private files with lists of things to work on. Doesn't > help anyone else track it. (Which is why I'll sometimes use one of > the two above trackers instead.) > > ...not sure if that helps, but that's the basic state of our "bug tracking". This is actually great context - thanks for providing! I'll go with the email strategy for visibility and will base my format off [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABceR4bZmtC4rCwgxZ1BBYZP69VOUca1f_moJoP989vTUZWu9Q@mail.gmail.com/