Sparse checkout not working with git version between 2.25 and 2.28

[dfdez]

From this comment and after some digging a figure out that sparse-checkout won't work on a git version between 2.25 and 2.28.

You can see the commit of git here where I find out in which version that error stop to be a problem

Before 2.28 in order to use --filter=<filter> on the git fetch the extensions.partialClone config had to be set in order to be able to use it...

Therefore in order to solve this we have 2 solutions:

1. Change the required version to 2.28
2. Update the current implementation to solve this use case

What do you think about this @dscho?

[dscho]

My preference would be to bump the minimum Git version.

[dfdez]

I think that is going to be the cleaner solution 👍🏽

[jkwinder]

This feature isn't working for me today on git 2.41.0 on a windows runner. This is the error:
Warning: Unexpected input(s) 'sparse-checkout', valid inputs are ['repository', 'ref', 'token', 'ssh-key', 'ssh-known-hosts', 'ssh-strict', 'persist-credentials', 'path', 'clean', 'fetch-depth', 'lfs', 'submodules', 'set-safe-directory', 'github-server-url']

yml file looks like this:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
sparse-checkout: |
.github
SPA${{ matrix.angDir }}
Deployment\SPANexusIQScanAppIdMapping.json

Any ideas what I'm missing? Or is this still broken on git 2.41?

[dscho]

@jkwinder this is a totally different issue than what is described in #1386 (comment). A new ticket would be more appropriate, and if you choose to open that, do link to a workflow run that demonstrates the issue.