| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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`. |