On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:49 PM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
[off-list ref] wrote:

From: Derrick Stolee <redacted>

When core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled, the 'git sparse-checkout set'
command taks a list of folders as input, then creates an ordered
list of sparse-checkout patterns such that those folders are
recursively included and all sibling blobs along the parent folders
are also included. Listing the patterns is less user-friendly than the
folders themselves.

I didn't spot anything that Junio hasn't already mentioned, but I'm
just chiming in to say that this sounds good and thanks so much for
working on the sparse-checkout command.  :-)