Re: Splitting up a repository

From: Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Dec 4, 2010, 07:14 UTC
Message-ID: <4CF9EA60.7040402@cs.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikqnnOLN=asPUKK0zYxYK9VWXcZPBPtwMZ3z-cr@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/4/2010 1:09, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> Say I have a repo where there are directories repo/foo, repo/bar,
>> repo/baz. 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz' are loosely related -- closely enough
>> that I put them together initially, but loosely enough that I now wish I
>> could check out just 'repo/foo'. Since Git doesn't support partial
>> checkouts (a bit annoying!),
> 
> Um.. it does support partial checkouts (check out man page of
> git-read-tree, sparse checkout section). But you must do a full clone
> (i.e. your repository will have bar and baz, even if you only checkout
> foo).

That's sort of spiffy, and I did not know about that. So again, thanks.

That said, I did a bit of reading around, and I'm not sure it does what I need. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2336580/sparse-checkout-in-git-1-7-0 is basically what I want, and the answers seem to indicate it isn't possible. (In other words, in my example, when I want a checkout of repo/foo, the .git directory needs to be a sibling of foo's contents, not a sibling of foo.)

Evan