Re: Ambigious messages (sparse checkout)

[Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>]

Others may have mistaken this for spam - I nearly did.

On 31/07/2021 09:46, Eugen Konkov wrote:
> $ git checkout 51c7d41b82b5b
> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
>        lib/Mojo/IOLoop/Stream.pm
> Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
> Aborting
> $ git checkout lib/Mojo/IOLoop/Stream.pm
> error: pathspec 'lib/Mojo/IOLoop/Stream.pm' did not match any file(s) known to git
>
> $ git add lib/Mojo/IOLoop/Stream.pm
> The following pathspecs didn't match any eligible path, but they do match index
> entries outside the current sparse checkout:

I strongly suspect it's a sparse checkout issue, given this message.

Others may be able to help better than I.

> lib/Mojo/IOLoop/Stream.pm
> hint: Disable or modify the sparsity rules if you intend to update such entries.
> hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.updateSparsePath false"
>
> $ git --version
> git version 2.32.0
>
> Here I do not understand how to checkout to different commit
> or how to commit the subject file
>
> It would be nice to show hint about how to exlude this file from unindex
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Eugen Konkov
>
--
Philip