Summary
Subject/session-level sparse checkout behavior is only applied to non-zipped inputs; for zipped inputs the full work tree under that path is cloned:
https://github.com/PennLINC/babs/blob/main/babs/templates/participant_job.sh.jinja2/#L84-L94
Need to apply git sparse-checkout to zipped input as well (e.g., zipped fMRIPrep outputs used as input in XCP-D project)