From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:50:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Copying Git repository from Linux to Windows.
Message-ID: <4DF9C3BA.8010106@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <4DF97998.7070604@st.com>

Am 6/16/2011 5:33, schrieb viresh kumar:
> And i wanted just linux source on windows, i will not be creating any patches from
> windows. Just needed code for reference.

If you only want to peek into the files, you don't need the files checked
out. Just have them in a bare repository and use, e.g.,

  git show master:mm/vmalloc.c

You can also use a sparse checkout to omit the questionable files from the
checkout. See man git-read-tree.

-- Hannes