From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory" all the
 time on Windows 7 on Git 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:30:16 +0700
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 2/6/2014 12:54, schrieb konstunn@ngs.ru:
>> However I typed the checkout directory in file
>> ..git/info/sparse-checkout by using different formats with
>> and without the leading and the trailing slashes, with and
>> without asterisk after trailing slash, having tried all
>> the possible combinations, but, all the same,
>> nevertheless, the error occured.
>
> Make sure that you do not use CRLF line terminators in the sparse-checkout
> file.

I suspected the same thing. But it looks like we do trim CRLF. Another
option is the file is encoded in utf-16 or some encoding which ascii
is not a subset of.
-- 
Duy