From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FR: Clone just the desired subdirectory
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:30:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiks9r5IpwPyCHxGEDqkiBB3rLiWK8zwLcxSB-9P@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilyvCWyWzqPGxtg9tkRM5SjXxbt50P5zImlxCHD@mail.gmail.com>
Heya,
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 16:24, Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us> wrote:
> My friend asked it from me, but I couldn't advise anything to him, but
> this request does make sense by me. So he would like to download a
> part of a git repository and he is not interested in the index and the
> history, so it would be nice to have something like git archive
> --remote or similar command which can do this operation.
Basically what you want is the ability to say "give me the tree and
corresponding blobs for directory foo in revision bar" (where bar is
usually HEAD). This ties in with the work on spare/narrow
checkouts/clones, which seems to have stagnated.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 14:24 FR: Clone just the desired subdirectory Laszlo Papp
2010-06-25 14:30 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-06-25 20:27 ` Björn Steinbrink
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