Git LFS Issue check incorrectly reports sparsely checked out files as not LFS tracked

[hotchkj]

Running the GitRepositoryIssuesProvider LFS issues check against a sparse-checkout Git repo yields files that aren't checked out as erroneously binary non-LFS files.

Steps to reproduce:

• Clone a repository with sparse checkout such that only a single sub-directory in the repo is present on disk
• Run the Git commands GitRepositoryIssuesProvider would run
  • git lfs ls-files -n yields the binary untracked files correctly
  • git grep -Ul . and git grep -UL . yield the working files
  • git ls-files -z reports the entire working tree

Expected result:

LFS files are only reported as not tracked if they are actually not tracked

Actual result:

All files not in the current sparse checkout are reported as LFS untracked

Workaround:

None

Possible fix:

Use git ls-files -t -z and parse the output such that S code files are not included in the allFiles variable.

Hope that helps!

[pascalberger]

@hotchkj Thanks for reporting the issue 👍 Your suggested fix seems reasonable. Are you in a position to provide a pull request for fixing this?

[hotchkj]

Apologies for the delay in reply - I will not immediately be in a position to provide a PR for this, though I will raise this as a ticket internally at my company in the event that we can get signoff to contribute.