From: Eric Sunshine Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:00:48 GMT Subject: Re: Creating sparse checkout in a new linked git worktree Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <615c04025165d0dff9d6e6b66bf11a41.squirrel@mail.jessiehernandez.com> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Jessie Hernandez wrote: >> The sparse-checkout file is specific to each worktree, which allows you > to control "sparsity" on a worktree by worktree basis. Therefore, you > should create $GIT_DIR/worktrees//info/sparse-checkout instead > (where is "new-branch" in your example). > > Would it help if this was added to the documentation of git-read-tree It probably would. Would you be interested in submitting a patch (mentioning 'git rev-parse --git-path info/sparse-checkout', as suggested by Duy)?