You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.287,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A plugin's path source tells Claude Code which folder inside a repository holds the plugin. Its description now says the repository is "Checked out sparsely" over https or ssh as a partial clone, which means only the needed parts are downloaded. It used to say "Cloned sparsely using partial clone".
Installed plugins also now keep a record of which repository folder they came from, and the way Claude Code refreshes plugin state has been reworked.
Why
The wording suggests that downloading only part of a repository now also works over ssh.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not confirmed that sparse checkout behaves differently, as opposed to only being described differently.
