From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Alex <ajb44.geo@yahoo.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question (possibly) on git subtree/submodules
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:48:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bp9tks6e.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100727T125434-697@post.gmane.org>
Alex <ajb44.geo@yahoo.com> writes:
> 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)
No, 'sparse checkout' is only about checkout, i.e. the working area.
You still have all objects in repository, only part of tree (part of
project / repository) is not checked out, not present on disk as
files.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-23 14:00 question (possibly) on git subtree/submodules Maurizio Vitale
2010-07-23 16:56 ` Chris Packham
2010-07-23 17:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-23 18:35 ` Chris Packham
2010-07-27 10:56 ` Alex
2010-07-27 12:48 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-07-27 14:24 ` RFC: Sparse checkout improvements (was: Re: question (possibly) on git subtree/submodules) Marc Branchaud
2010-07-27 16:55 ` skillzero
2010-07-28 13:42 ` RFC: Sparse checkout improvements Marc Branchaud
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