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Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements

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Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Elijah Newren 2021-12-14 04:09:11 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-clone.txt
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@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
configuration variables are created.
--sparse::
Initialize the sparse-checkout file so the working
directory starts with only the files in the root
of the repository. The sparse-checkout file can be
modified to grow the working directory as needed.
Employ a sparse-checkout, with only files in the toplevel
directory initially being present. The
linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] command can be used to grow the
working directory as needed.
--filter=<filter-spec>::
Use the partial clone feature and request that the server sends

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Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
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@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ SPARSE CHECKOUT
It uses the skip-worktree bit (see linkgit:git-update-index[1]) to tell
Git whether a file in the working directory is worth looking at. If
the skip-worktree bit is set, then the file is ignored in the working
directory. Git will not populate the contents of those files, which
directory. Git will avoid populating the contents of those files, which
makes a sparse checkout helpful when working in a repository with many
files, but only a few are important to the current user.