Derrick Stolee

> looks blocked on upstream: [libgit2/libgit2#6044](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/6044) I figured that was the case. Thanks for the pointer to what you're using under the hood!

I would rate sparse index integrations as medium difficulty. I think the outcomes are pretty clear from the description.

> > I could only find slides for two presentations, but no blog posts: > > @derrickstolee wrote a handful of blog posts which comprised his talk: They got these...

Another option is microsoft/scalar, or Git with partial clone. Scalar will get you set up with partial clone _and_ Git's sparse-checkout feature automatically. That will save network time because you...

@vdye I wonder if this should be made an expectation of new work in `git-bundle-server`: create unit tests whenever appropriate, especially before changing behavior that could be covered by unit...

> ... I do plan to knock this out at some point in the near(-ish, within the next couple months) future. That's enough reason to keep it around. I will...

I realized that there is a public repo that uses beachball (and not Azure DevOps) that demonstrates this behavior as well. The [`microsoft/fluentui` repo](https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui) uses beachball and has these stats...

Thanks, @ecraig12345! I'll consider this issue closed.

@stephengillie: We are requesting that you perform your magic manual steps to unblock this PR like you've done in similar PRs, such as #185315. Thanks!