From this comment and after some digging a figure out that sparse-checkout won't work on a git version between 2.25 and 2.28.

You can see the commit of git here where I find out in which version that error stop to be a problem

Before 2.28 in order to use --filter=<filter> on the git fetch the extensions.partialClone config had to be set in order to be able to use it...

Therefore in order to solve this we have 2 solutions:

1. Change the required version to 2.28
2. Update the current implementation to solve this use case

What do you think about this @dscho?