Re: partial checkouts

[Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>]

2009/5/24 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Chani <chanika@gmail.com> wrote:
>> checking out the entire git repo isn't really feasible, because once KDE
>> finishes switching to git that'll mean checking out all of KDE.
>> I don't think that turning every doc folder into a submodule is feasible,
>> either - they sound kinda awkward to work with, and I can imagine lots of
>> people getting confused and messing them up...
>
> If you don't mind cloning the entire git repo (which may be quite
> large in KDE case, I guess), then you may want to try "sparse
> checkout". The patch series is available as a topic branch "tp/sco" in
> this branch:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/pclouds.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/inst
>
> Or I can send the patch series to you. It lets you specify what part
> of the tree you want to checkout.

I recall following this series when you first announced it.  Do you
have any plans to try and get it included in mainline?  ISTR there was
some more work needed to be done on it before then.

-- Thomas Adam