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Re: Hard reset of a subdirectory in a sparse checkout setting

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Kirill Müller <kirill.mueller@ivt.baug.ethz.ch>
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Mar 23, 2013, 13:02 UTC
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On 03/23/2013 10:59 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Kirill Müller
> <kirill.mueller@ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> What's the proper way to do this in Git?
> I think adding --sparse to git checkout may be more user-friendly. And
> it looks like a simple change. I'll make a patch soon (I need some
> time to recall how sparse checkout interacts with git-checkout).

Thanks for looking into it. Would it mean an extra switch to the checkout command, or default behavior?

-Kirill
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Message 3 of 17 in “Hard reset of a subdirectory in a sparse checkout setting”
  1. Kirill MüllerMar 22, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenMar 23, 2013
  3. Kirill MüllerMar 23, 2013
  4. checkout: add --sparse for restoring files in sparse checkout modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 24, 2013
  5. Eric SunshineMar 24, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederMar 24, 2013
  7. Kirill MüllerMar 24, 2013
  8. Duy NguyenMar 25, 2013
  9. Jonathan NiederMar 25, 2013
  10. checkout: add --no-widen for restoring files in sparse checkout modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 30, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederApr 1, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2013
  13. Duy NguyenApr 1, 2013
  14. Jonathan NiederApr 1, 2013
  15. checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout modeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 12, 2013
  16. Müller KirillMay 14, 2013
  17. Duy NguyenMay 14, 2013

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