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From: Alex <ajb44.geo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: question (possibly) on git subtree/submodules
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Chris Packham <judge.packham <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The short answer is no. Nothing git has currently will let you clone a
> subset of files. 

Isn't that what 'sparse checkout' does?
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout)

Alex