Re: FR: Clone just the desired subdirectory

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 25, 2010, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20100625202738.GA3696@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilyvCWyWzqPGxtg9tkRM5SjXxbt50P5zImlxCHD@mail.gmail.com>

On 2010.06.25 16:24:52 +0200, Laszlo Papp wrote:

> Is there a way to clone
> git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded/recipes/qt4, not the whole
> repository ?

Here you ask for a subdirectory clone.

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> 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.

Here you say that your friend doesn't bother about the history, but just wants a snapshot.

So which functionality are you actually asking for? The latter can already be handled by git archive:

git archive --remote=<repo> <tree-ish>

For example:

git archive --remote=git://localhost/some/repo.git HEAD:some/directory

git-daemon just doesn't allow it by default, you need to enable the upload-archive service.

Björn