Sparse checkout in worktree
- From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
- Date
- Nov 25, 2015, 12:40 UTC
- Message-ID
- <5655AC29.20801@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Hi there,
I'm wondering how much it would take to enable worktree specific sparse checkouts. From a superfluous look:
- $GIT_DIR/info/sparse_checkout needs to be worktree specific - We don't have much tooling around sparse to speak of at all.
The endgoal would be to have something like
git checkout [--sparse <pattern>]...
which sets up the sparse_checkout file and "git worktree" to pass any --sparse option on to "git checkout".
While in an ideal world we all have micro repos, in the real world we often have larger repos with mostly independent subdirs. For a quick fix on a side branch in a subdir, a new sparse worktree would be an ideal lean solution.
As it is, "git stash save && git checkout" is leaner but interrupts the workflow more, and a local "git clone" with links and alternates is leaner, too, but conceptually overkill if you want to work quickly on an existing side branch.
Cheers, Michael