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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Sparse checkout in worktree
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:40:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5655AC29.20801@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)

Hi there,

I'm wondering how much it would take to enable worktree specific sparse
checkouts. From a superfluous look:

- $GIT_DIR/info/sparse_checkout needs to be worktree specific
- We don't have much tooling around sparse to speak of at all.

The endgoal would be to have something like

git checkout [--sparse <pattern>]...

which sets up the sparse_checkout file and "git worktree" to pass any
--sparse option on to "git checkout".

While in an ideal world we all have micro repos, in the real world we
often have larger repos with mostly independent subdirs. For a quick fix
on a side branch in a subdir, a new sparse worktree would be an ideal
lean solution.

As it is, "git stash save && git checkout" is leaner but interrupts the
workflow more, and a local "git clone" with links and alternates is
leaner, too, but conceptually overkill if you want to work quickly on an
existing side branch.

Cheers,
Michael

             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-25 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-25 12:40 Michael J Gruber [this message]
2015-11-25 19:38 ` Sparse checkout in worktree Duy Nguyen
2015-11-25 19:44   ` Michael J Gruber
2015-11-25 20:17     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-11-25 20:44       ` Michael J Gruber
2015-11-25 20:50         ` Duy Nguyen

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