builtin/clone: set up sparse checkout later

When asked to do a sparse checkout, then git-clone(1) will spawn
`git sparse-checkout set` to set up the configuration accordingly. This
requires a proper Git repository or otherwise the command will fail. But
as we are about to move creation of the reference database to a later
point, this prerequisite will not hold anymore.

Move the logic to a later point in time where we know to have created
the reference database already.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: pks-t

builtin/clone.c

@@ -1185,9 +1185,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (option_required_reference.nr || option_optional_reference.nr)
 		setup_reference();
 
-	if (option_sparse_checkout && git_sparse_checkout_init(dir))
-		return 1;
-
 	remote = remote_get(remote_name);
 
 	refspec_appendf(&remote->fetch, "+%s*:%s*", src_ref_prefix,
@@ -1426,6 +1423,9 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		dissociate_from_references();
 	}
 
+	if (option_sparse_checkout && git_sparse_checkout_init(dir))
+		return 1;
+
 	junk_mode = JUNK_LEAVE_REPO;
 	err = checkout(submodule_progress, filter_submodules);