Matt Rosenquist

Found a fix without changing the library Call `ECx.setConfiguration();` before calling load or any other function that references the `fetcher` property.

@bk2204 I've taken a bit of a deep dive on this, here are my thoughts: Ideally `git ls-tree` should have an option to only include files that don't have the...

FYI: I have raised https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/5689 which blocks me from using filters in a sparse-checkout as a manual filter.

@bk2204, reading the GIT documentation on [sparse-checkouts](https://git-scm.com/docs/sparse-checkout), unfortunately, the `ls-tree` command seems to be in a class of commands that for now `ignore the sparse specification entirely` See more [sparse-checkouts](https://git-scm.com/docs/sparse-checkout),...

I completely understand. I have no idea how responsive 'git core' would be to making the change to `ls-tree' and then the time to have a wide adoption. The benefits...

I just noticed this suggestion, and I had some thoughts (please feel free to disregard): The idea seems sound and has a lot of implementation similarities with git-lfs. However am...

I agree that the files are not fetched as a batch is a core git issue. The issue gets far worse as the repo scales. Currently; GIT-LFS requires that the...

The PR looks great 👍. Glad the filters were helpful; they were new to me. Good catch on making the formatting the same.

@bk2204 great to see #5699 merged. Any Idea if this will be released soonish or independently of v3.50?

Hi @bk2204, I have tested the change that you've made in #5699. It works well for `git clone --filter=tree:0 --depth=1 --no-checkout --no-tags ` when sparse isn't used, for `pull`/`checkout`. When...