SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> +To start, we use a new repository extension, `extensions.sparseIndex`, to >> +allow inserting sparse-directory entries into indexes with file format >> +versions 2, 3, and 4. This prevents Git versions that do not understand >> +the sparse-index from operating on one, but it also prevents other >> +operations that do not use the index at all. > > Why is this not a non-optional index extension? ... > This really should be a non-optional index extension. Yeah, the index extension mechanism was designed with optional and required kinds because we wanted to support exactly a use case like this one. Thanks for pointing it out.
