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diff --git a/sparse-index.h b/sparse-index.h
index 0268f38753..1115a0d7dd 100644
--- a/sparse-index.h
+++ b/sparse-index.h
@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@
 struct index_state;
 int convert_to_sparse(struct index_state *istate);
 
+/*
+ * Some places in the codebase expect to search for a specific path.
+ * This path might be outside of the sparse-checkout definition, in
+ * which case a sparse-index may not contain a path for that index.
+ *
+ * Given an index and a path, check to see if a leading directory for
+ * 'path' exists in the index as a sparse directory. In that case,
+ * expand that sparse directory to a full range of cache entries and
+ * populate the index accordingly.
+ */
+void expand_to_path(struct index_state *istate,
+		    const char *path, size_t pathlen, int icase);
+
 struct repository;
 int set_sparse_index_config(struct repository *repo, int enable);