Dear Poky world

I wonder if it is possible to achieve the following ?

We have some home cooked , git controlled modules, that expose a public API.
By company convention, public interfaces must be located in a lib/ directory within the module.

It would be nice to checkout only the interface stuff in lib/, without polluting the HDD with the entire module, when we only need the interface files.

By hand it is easy:

If a developer want to use this public interface, he/she will use the git sparse-checkout feature, to avoid checking out the entire module - executing these commands will checkout only the lib directory

mkdir <repo>
cd <repo>
git init
git remote add -f origin <url>
git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo "lib/" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout

git pull origin <branch> / checkout will the only affect the lib/ directory How to do from a recipe ? I want to make a poky-recipe for the public interface, so API users can specify DEPENDS it their recipes So do I make my own class that inserts a buildstep before do_unpack ? Ideas and concrete examples will be highly appreciated. Of course I can choose to let the API Recipe checkout the parent project in it's entirety, and the do it's personal build magic in on the lib/ only. No real disasters will happen, other that waisting some MB's on my colleagues HDD. BR Lars Larsen

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Best Regards
Lars Larsen 

F.Poulsen Engineering Aps
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