Re: [PATCH 2/7] sparse-checkout: correctly set non-cone mode when expected

> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> 
> commit f2e3a218e8 ("sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize
> sparse-checkout mode", 2021-12-14) made the `set` command able to
> intialize sparse-checkout mode, but it also had to function when

> sparse-checkout mode was already setup and the user just wanted to
> change the sparsity paths.  So, if the user passed --cone or --no-cone,
> then we should override the current setting, but if they didn't pass
> either, we should use whatever the current cone mode setting is.
> 
> Unfortunately, there was a small error in the logic in that it would not
> set the in-memory cone mode value (core_sparse_checkout_one) when
> --no-cone was specified, but since it did set the config setting on
> disk, any subsequent git invocation would correctly get non-cone mode.
> As such, the error did not previously matter.  However, a sbusequent

> commit will add some logic that depends on core_sparse_checkout_cone
> being set to the correct mode, so make sure it is set consistently with
> the config values we will be writing to disk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/sparse-checkout.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
> index 510cb89b544..8d595189ea3 100644
> --- a/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
> +++ b/builtin/sparse-checkout.c
> @@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ static int update_modes(int *cone_mode, int *sparse_index)
>  		core_sparse_checkout_cone = 1;
>  	} else {
>  		mode = MODE_ALL_PATTERNS;
> +		if (record_mode)
> +			core_sparse_checkout_cone = 0;