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

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:48:09 -0700 (PDT)

Alex <[email-masked]> 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
Poland
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