feat: broaden sparse checkout paths and add --skip-checks flag

Expand sparse checkout paths from specific files to their parent
directories to capture more relevant source files. Add --skip-checks
to sparse-checkout set to allow paths that may not exist at checkout
time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: critesjosh

src/repos/config.ts

@@ -45,16 +45,16 @@ const BASE_REPOS: Omit<RepoConfig, "tag">[] = [
       "barretenberg/ts/src",
       "boxes",
       "playground",
-      "l1-contracts/src/core/libraries/Errors.sol",
+      "l1-contracts/src/core/libraries",
     ],
     sparsePathOverrides: [
       {
         paths: [
           "docs/developer_versioned_docs/version-{version}",
           "docs/static/aztec-nr-api/devnet",
           "docs/static/typescript-api/devnet",
-          "docs/docs-developers/docs/aztec-nr/debugging.md",
-          "docs/docs-operate/operators/operator-faq.md",
+          "docs/docs-developers/docs/aztec-nr",
+          "docs/docs-operate/operators",
         ],
         branch: "next",
       },

src/utils/git.ts

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ export async function cloneRepo(
         const repoGit = simpleGit({ baseDir: clonePath, progress: progressHandler });
         await repoGit.raw(["config", "gc.auto", "0"]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Setting sparse checkout paths: ${config.sparse!.join(", ")}`, "debug");
-        await repoGit.raw(["sparse-checkout", "set", ...config.sparse!]);
+        await repoGit.raw(["sparse-checkout", "set", "--skip-checks", ...config.sparse!]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Fetching commit ${config.commit.substring(0, 7)}`, "info");
         await repoGit.fetch(["origin", config.commit]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Checking out commit`, "debug");
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ export async function cloneRepo(
         const repoGit = simpleGit({ baseDir: clonePath, progress: progressHandler });
         await repoGit.raw(["config", "gc.auto", "0"]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Setting sparse checkout paths: ${config.sparse!.join(", ")}`, "debug");
-        await repoGit.raw(["sparse-checkout", "set", ...config.sparse!]);
+        await repoGit.raw(["sparse-checkout", "set", "--skip-checks", ...config.sparse!]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Fetching tag ${config.tag}`, "info");
         await repoGit.fetch(["--depth=1", "origin", `refs/tags/${config.tag}:refs/tags/${config.tag}`]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Checking out tag`, "debug");
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export async function cloneRepo(
         const repoGit = simpleGit({ baseDir: clonePath, progress: progressHandler });
         await repoGit.raw(["config", "gc.auto", "0"]);
         log?.(`${config.name}: Setting sparse checkout paths: ${config.sparse!.join(", ")}`, "debug");
-        await repoGit.raw(["sparse-checkout", "set", ...config.sparse!]);
+        await repoGit.raw(["sparse-checkout", "set", "--skip-checks", ...config.sparse!]);
       }
     } else {
       // Clone for smaller repos