last-modified: support sparse checkouts
In a sparse checkout, a user might want to run `last-modified` on a directory outside the worktree. And even in non-sparse checkouts, a user might need to run that command on a directory that does not exist in the worktree. These use cases should be supported via the `--` separator between revision and file arguments, which is even advertised in the documentation. This patch fixes a tiny bug that prevents that from working. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5978 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin committed
Nov 29, 2025 at 13:43 UTC
05491b90ce200e6411f9aaac0afe13af45d69824
2 files changed
+10
-1
builtin/last-modified.c
+2
-1
index b0ecbdc540..dc1e229f4d 100644
--- a/builtin/last-modified.c
+++ b/builtin/last-modified.c
@@ -525,7 +525,8 @@ int cmd_last_modified(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, last_modified_options,
last_modified_usage,
- PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 | PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT);
+ PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 | PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT |
+ PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH);
repo_config(repo, git_default_config, NULL);
t/t8020-last-modified.sh
+8
index a4c1114ee2..50f4312f71 100755
--- a/t/t8020-last-modified.sh
+++ b/t/t8020-last-modified.sh
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ test_expect_success 'last-modified subdir' '
EOF
'
+test_expect_success 'last-modified in sparse checkout' '
+ test_when_finished "git sparse-checkout disable" &&
+ git sparse-checkout set b &&
+ check_last_modified -- a <<-\EOF
+ 3 a
+ EOF
+'
+
test_expect_success 'last-modified subdir recursive' '
check_last_modified -r a <<-\EOF
3 a/b/file