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As of some newer Git version, sparse-checkout doesn't use patterns anymore but directories as arguments.

So to get the same functionality as earlier, one has to use

yadm sparse-checkout set --non-cone '/*' '!README.md' '!UNLICENSE.md'

but then it works as expected.

This even can be used in bootstrapping if you cd $HOME before.

The reasoning behind the change in git sparse-checkout and the downsides of using --non-cone mode can be found here: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout#_internalsnon_cone_problems But these shouldn't affect us for (usually) small dotfile repositories.

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