Re: [QUESTION] Selective fetch possible?

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Filippo Zangheri <filippo.zangheri@yahoo.it> wrote:
> Is it possible to git-fetch only a portion of the tree
> of the specified repository, say, fetch only one directory or a
> subset of files matching some regular expression? This is currently
> - to my knowledge - only possible via wget iff the GIT repository
> has gitweb enabled. But that's just a workaround.

No.

You can use a shallow clone to fetch only X commits back into
history on any branch, and you can also manually configure the
fetch specification in .git/config to only fetch specific branches,
but you must fetch the entire tree to get any of the files in it.

If the repository is available by git:// protocol you may be able
to use git-archive to obtain a tarfile for just the directory you
want (service has to be enabled on the remote side) but that is
just a raw UNIX tar; there is no Git repository and no ability to
commit/fetch/push/diff/apply/log/etc.
 
-- 
Shawn.