Git's new built-in repository management tool, Scalar, attempts to solve the problem by curating and configuring a uniform set of features with the biggest impact on large repositories. The sparse index is a relatively new Git feature that enables Git to shrink the size of its index data structure to only track the contents of your sparse checkout.
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