remove sparseCheckoutDir

[kadel]

Currently, it is defined as

             "sparseCheckoutDir": {
                "description": "Part of project to populate in the working directory.",
                "type": "string",
                "markdownDescription": "Part of project to populate in the working directory."
              }

As I understand this, if I have a repo with a structure like this.

- file0.txt
- /dir1/
    - file1.txt
- /dir2/
   - file2.txt

and I do sparseCheckoutDir: dir2 I should end up with directory with /file2.txt.
Problem is that this is not how git sparse checkout works, and as far as I know, you can never clone the repo like this.

The way how sparse checkout in git works is that it can populate only certain directories, but the directory structure remains.

For example, If I have a repo with the above structure and I want to do sparse checkout if a /dir2 I would end up with a directory structure like this:

- file0.txt
- /dir2/
   - file2.txt

But what we want to do here is to end up with /file2.txt and that is not what sparse checkout does.

I would actually consider completely removing this field from Devfile, It will create a lot of confusion and problems.

[kadel]

from meeting:
" We are going to remove the sparseCheckoutDir from project and add it to starterProject and rename it to something like subDir. "

[l0rd]

@kadel can we close this issue?

[elsony]

Done