Bump `MinimumGitVersion` to 2.28 due to #1386jww3-minversion-v5

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/git-command-manager.ts b/src/git-command-manager.ts
index 38783e9..1ce9aa3 100644
--- a/src/git-command-manager.ts
+++ b/src/git-command-manager.ts
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ import {GitVersion} from './git-version'
 
 // Auth header not supported before 2.9
 // Wire protocol v2 not supported before 2.18
-// sparse-checkout not supported before 2.25
-export const MinimumGitVersion = new GitVersion('2.25')
+// sparse-checkout not [well-]supported before 2.28 (see https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1386)
+export const MinimumGitVersion = new GitVersion('2.28')
 
 export interface IGitCommandManager {
   branchDelete(remote: boolean, branch: string): Promise<void>
@@ -597,15 +597,7 @@ class GitCommandManager {
     }
 
     this.doSparseCheckout = doSparseCheckout
-    if (this.doSparseCheckout) {
-      // The `git sparse-checkout` command was introduced in Git v2.25.0
-      const minimumGitSparseCheckoutVersion = new GitVersion('2.25')
-      if (!gitVersion.checkMinimum(minimumGitSparseCheckoutVersion)) {
-        throw new Error(
-          `Minimum Git version required for sparse checkout is ${minimumGitSparseCheckoutVersion}. Your git ('${this.gitPath}') is ${gitVersion}`
-        )
-      }
-    }
+
     // Set the user agent
     const gitHttpUserAgent = `git/${gitVersion} (github-actions-checkout)`
     core.debug(`Set git useragent to: ${gitHttpUserAgent}`)