unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 7791c32bc3461d7fcc73001165492b84c0997f06..5825c914fbe9bbf3d8d9317b67648ca27703e60d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -439,6 +439,10 @@ On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable.
 Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the
 check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
 
+core.sparseCheckout::
+       Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
+       linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
+
 add.ignore-errors::
        Tells 'git-add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
        added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'