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diff --git a/Documentation/config/sparse.txt b/Documentation/config/sparse.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aff49a8d3a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/sparse.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns:: + Typically with sparse checkouts, files not matching any + sparsity patterns are marked with a SKIP_WORKTREE bit in the + index and are missing from the working tree. Accordingly, Git + will ordinarily check whether files with the SKIP_WORKTREE bit + are in fact present in the working tree contrary to + expectations. If Git finds any, it marks those paths as + present by clearing the relevant SKIP_WORKTREE bits. This + option can be used to tell Git that such + present-despite-skipped files are expected and to stop + checking for them. ++ +The default is `false`, which allows Git to automatically recover +from the list of files in the index and working tree falling out of +sync. ++ +Set this to `true` if you are in a setup where some external factor +relieves Git of the responsibility for maintaining the consistency +between the presence of working tree files and sparsity patterns. For +example, if you have a Git-aware virtual file system that has a robust +mechanism for keeping the working tree and the sparsity patterns up to +date based on access patterns. ++ +Regardless of this setting, Git does not check for +present-despite-skipped files unless sparse checkout is enabled, so +this config option has no effect unless `core.sparseCheckout` is +`true`. |