Re: Creating sparse checkout in a new linked git worktree

From: Jessie Hernandez <git@jessiehernandez.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2018, 14:25 UTC
Message-ID: <615c04025165d0dff9d6e6b66bf11a41.squirrel@mail.jessiehernandez.com>

> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Jessie Hernandez
> <git@jessiehernandez.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to get a sparse checkout in a linked worktree but cannot

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>> it working. I have tried the following
>> * git worktree add /some/new/path/new-branch --no-checkout
>> * git config core.sparseCheckout true
>> * <add the directory I would like to checkout out to
>> $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout>
>> * cd  /some/new/path/new-branch
>> * git read-tree -mu sparse-checkout
>> But I still end up with a fully populated worktree.
>> Is there something I am missing or doing wrong?
> The sparse-checkout file is specific to each worktree, which allows you

to control "sparsity" on a worktree by worktree basis. Therefore, you should create $GIT_DIR/worktrees/<id>/info/sparse-checkout instead (where <id> is "new-branch" in your example).

Right this seems to work indeed. Thank you.

Would it help if this was added to the documentation of git-read-tree

Regards, Jessie