How to use git sparse-checkout in 2.27+

Question

I was trying to reproduce the few tutorial steps from:

https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-size-with-sparse-checkout

Which was made fo

Answer 1

Here is a solution that will populate only files in the root folder:

$ git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/derrickstolee/sparse-checkout-example

Then subsequent sparse-checkout calls work like a charm.

Still no idea why the tutorial is broken.