core.sparseCheckout
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Worktree sync now writes the complete tree in repositories using sparse checkout.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.247.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names core.sparseCheckout.
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v2.1.281
Dir-sync upload respects sparse checkouts
Directory sync no longer uploads files skipped by a git sparse checkout as deleted, and handles non-UTF-8 filenames
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.281
Dir-sync snapshot now reads sparse-checkout state and index entries hidden from git
Directory sync snapshots now read git sparse-checkout state and include files git hides from the working folder
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.247
Worktree sync writes the whole tree in sparse-checkout repositories
Worktree sync now writes the complete tree in repositories using sparse checkout.
found in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted core.sparseCheckout was v2.1.281, 23 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.