Support for sparse checkouts

[maczejka]

Version

0.14.4

Operating System

macOS

Distribution Method

dmg (Apple Silicon)

Describe the issue

Error when trying to add a repo using sparse checkouts:

See also: https://git-scm.com/docs/sparse-index

The repo in question is a (very) large monorepo with sparse checkout tooling. On a full checkout, gitbutler is unusably slow. It was my hope that the sparse checkout would help mitigate those performance issue, but support for this unfortunately seems to be missing entirely.

How to reproduce

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Expected behavior

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Relevant log output

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[Byron]

Thanks a lot for reporting!

git2 is used in many places still and it won't be able to open indices that represent sparse checkouts. gitoxide will do better eventually, but that will only work once git2 isn't used anymore for anything that touches the .git/index.