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Subject: Re: question (possibly) on git subtree/submodules
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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.

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Jakub Narebski
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