I am running on Z/OS Unix System Services and attempting to git clone a single directory from a repository, but am getting an "unstaged changes" error.
The cause is a don't in the README.md, but I don't know how to work round it. Is there a git attributes setting that I can use?
The initial command is for a sparse clone.
git clone --sparse https://github.com/myrepo
That clones and checks out the top level directory and top level files.
I cd into the cloned directory and run
git sparse-checkout add JustThisDir
To checkout out JustThisDir. These commands work on my MacOS laptop, but on Z/OS USS I get an error
error: cannot set sparse-checkout patterns: You have unstaged changes.
Turns out the README.md file is showing as updated, and I need to run
git commit -am "readme fudge"
before the
git sparse-checkout add JustThisDir
works.
There are other top level files in the directory, but it is only the README.md that shows as having untagged changes.
git diff
shows
-When your application needs messaging, you don’t
+When your application needs messaging, you dont
The repo has don't, but the git copy has dont
Someone just spotted that the apostrophe in the readme didn't look right.
The fix was the change don’t to don't